Champagne Room © Benoit Del Mar kicks off its three-day Labor Day Holiday weekend of racing Saturday with a stakes double-header, spotlighting top two-year-old fillies in the Grade I $300,000 Del Mar Debutante and their...

Tom Ables © Zoe Metz at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club NO. 1 AZTEC FAN ABLES IS ALSO A FAVORITE SON OF DEL MAR The gang of photographers jockeying for position near the starting gate for...

Vale Dori © Benoit Photo Argentine-bred Vale Dori, the 1-2 betting choice under jockey Rafael Bejarano, delivered as expected Wednesday with a workmanlike winning performance in the featured $79,290 Tranquility Lake Stakes for older fillies...

California Diamond © Benoit Rockingham Ranch’s California Diamond, who earned his stakes spurs in the Santa Anita Juvenile and then was runner-up in Del Mar’s Graduation Stakes in early August, heads a field of seven...

American Cleopatra © Zoe Metz for Del Mar Thoroughbred Club SEVEN ENTERED FOR DEBUTANTE, 14 FOR JUVENILE TURF SATURDAY As the saying goes, two out of three ain’t bad. And Hall of Fame trainer Bob...

Belvoir Bay © Benoit English-bred Belvoir Bay, piloted by the red-hot Norberto Arroyo, Jr., grabbed the lead from the gate and never relinquished it in scoring a wire-to-wire triumph in the featured Grade III $100,000...

Norberto Arroyo, Jr. aboard Why Two © Benoit NORBERTO ARROYO, JR., MAKING THE MOST OF FRESH START HERE Jockey Norberto Arroyo, Jr., arrived in California about five days before the start of the Del Mar...

Miss Sunset © Zoe Metz for Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Miss Sunset, the 1-2 favorite on the basis of her career debut which she won stylishly by four and three-quarter lengths, improved on that performance...

Masochistic © Benoit Masochistic, the overwhelming favorite at 1-5, delivered as expected Saturday with a brilliant front-running victory under jockey Tyler Baze in the featured Grade II $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes. Running versus only two...

Enola Gray © Zoe Metz for Del Mar Thoroughbred Club ENOLA GRAY AIMS TO STAY PERFECT AND WIN SECOND STAKE HERE The phrase that trainer Phil D’Amato often uses to describe 3-year-old filly Enola Gray’s...