By Tuesday morning it was beginning to look like the Del Mar backside as we’ve come to know it. Horses going through their morning routines, be it a simple walk along the shedrow or a quick gallop out on to the main track which was open for the first time this season.

The Oceanside, the first of Del Mar's trio of grass stakes for 3-year-olds, drew a field of 10 with Iron Man Cal in as the favorite.

New for 2025, fans must have a SeatGeek account to purchase tickets to the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar.

A pair of highly successful Del Mar programs that its horsemen and horsewomen have found to be especially popular – “Ship & Win” and the Maiden Dirt Bonus – again will enhance Del Mar’s summer meet purses when racing resumes on Friday, July 18.

Clock Tower, who had the good luck to have Hall of Famer John Velazquez in the saddle as they “walked the dog” through the early part of the one-mile Cecil B. DeMille Stakes, scored a two and a half-length victory in the juvenile turf test Sunday.

Thomas Notches Third Fall Festival Stakes Win

Raul Pantoja scored on a huge trifecta in the last race to fly by the leaders in the Fall Challenge.

Outsiders Mi Hermano Ramon and Will Then captured the Seabiscuit Handicap and the Jimmy Durante Stakes.

You can generally rely on trainer Chad Brown bringing a small string of quality horses to Del Mar for the annual Fall Turf Festival. Since 2016, when Brown won his first stakes race at Del Mar, the New York-based trainer has won 19 stakes and all but one came this time of year.

Twelve high-line fillies and mares will test their mettle Sunday at Del Mar in the Grade I Matriarch Stakes as the curtain comes down on the 11th Bing Crosby Season.