Maxim Rate © Benoit Photo A stakes doubleheader – featuring the Grade II, $200,000 Best Pal Stakes and the Grade II, $200,000 Yellow Ribbon Handicap – will provide some extra spice to an enticing Saturday...

Smash Ticket © Benoit Photo SORRENTO IS A STEP UP FOR FAVORED SMASH TICKET AND NINE RIVALS One inference from the wire-to-wire, five-length victory Smash Ticket produced in a maiden race here on July 17...

Smash Ticket © Benoit Photo Eleven promising juvenile fillies will face the starter Friday at Del Mar and run six furlongs in the 53rd edition of the Sorrento Stakes. The Grade II, $200,000 headliner will...

At the Spa © Benoit Photo Young female horses – all of them having first seen light of day in The Golden State – will further their education at Del Mar Thursday afternoon when they...

Shedaresthedevil © Benoit Photo Flurry Racing Stables, Qatar Racing Limited or Big Aut Farms’ Shedaresthedevil walked her beat Sunday at Del Mar and came away a handy three and one-quarter length winner of the Grade...

Dr. Schivel © Benoit Photo GLATT STANDS ALONE WITH SUCCESSIVE CROSBY WINS BY 3-YEAR-OLDS A year after winning the Grade I, $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes with 3-year-old Collusion Illusion, trainer Mark Glatt did it again...

Dr. Schivel © Benoit Photo Red Baron’s Barn, Rancho Temescal, William Reeves and partners Dr. Schivel, a 3-year-old taking on seven salty older rivals, made the lead in midstretch, then hung extra tough late to...

Shedaresthedevil © Benoit Photo SPECTRE OF SHEDARESTHEDEVIL LOOMS OVER SUNDAY’S HIRSCH Shedaresthedevil departed Del Mar in September of 2019 after competing in two stakes races for 2-year-old fillies. The daughter of Daredevil had finished third...

None Above the Law © Benoit Photo Downstream Racing’s gray stretch runner None Above the Law found a perfect spot just behind the leaders early, then pounced at the quarter pole and won in the...

C Z Rocket © Benoit Photo RAIN WAS A PAIN, BUT C Z ROCKET AIMED TO SHINE IN GRADE I CROSBY C Z Rocket, whose ascent from $40,000 claim by trainer Peter Miller to millionaire...