Curlin’s Kaos added blinkers for Friday’s Real Good Deal Stakes at Del Mar, then broke running and never looked back in capturing the 37th edition of the seven-panel sprint for Cal-bred 3-year-olds.

The La Jolla has drawn a field of six topped by a chestnut colt named Final Boss, who struts his stuff out of the barn of conditioner John Sadler. The son of Triple Crown star American Pharoah is owned by the partnership of Talla Racing and West Point Thoroughbreds and comes into the race off a solid score in Santa Anita’s Cinema Stakes on June 16. That race was run at a mile and one-eighth, so the colt will be cutting back just a tad on Sunday. Leading rider Juan Hernandez has the call.

Clement L. Hirsch OAK TREE DAY AT DEL MAR SATURDAY OFFERING MANY REWARDS Del Mar will host its first Oak Tree Day Saturday with racing’s foremost charitable group involved throughout the racing card. The afternoon’s...

Nick Alexander’s homebred filly Loretta Lynn lay up close for most of the trip, then assumed command at the top of the stretch and went on to a two and a quarter length triumph in the allowance feature at Del Mar.

Adare Manor, one of the top racemares in America, will go postward Saturday as a strong favorite in Del Mar’s 54th edition of the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes, a Grade I headliner presented by Oak Tree Racing Association.

Shady Tiger has been a trainer’s dream. The 3-year-old gelded son of Smiling Tiger has won going long and won sprinting. He’s won on the turf and he’s won on the dirt. The only thing the Cal-bred hasn’t done is win in open company but trainer Phil D’Amato says that time will come.

Shady Tiger will go postward as the 9/5 morning line favorite in Friday's Real Good Deal Stakes.

Johannesstalked in the two hole under Umberto Rispoli, then fired in the lane to draw clear handily and come home two and a half lengths best in the Grade II headliner.

The winners in both of the graded stakes races at Del Mar Saturday have come back in good order and plans are in the works for their next races.

Bob Traynor turned the $4,000 starting bankroll into $19,650 to top 128 entries on day one of Del Mar's signature handicapping contest.