All-star lineup on closing-day worktab at Del Mar

What do you get when you combine the winners of the Travers Stakes, Kentucky Oaks, Pacific Classic, and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies?

The Monday work tab at Del Mar.

It was an all-star lineup that hit the track early Monday prior to the final card of the meet, with the likes of West Coast, Abel Tasman, Collected, and Champagne Room working, along with such top-class runners as Cupid and Vale Dori.

West Coast, the Travers winner, went three furlongs in 35.60 seconds in company with the older horse Cupid. Baffert, who trains both horses, said West Coast would make his next start in the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on Sept. 23.

Cupid, who won the Brubaker at Del Mar in his last start, will go in either the Grade 1, $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on Oct. 7, or the Grade 1, $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 30, Baffert said.

West Coast will be joined at Parx on Sept. 23 by Abel Tasman, who is the leader among the nation’s 3-year-old fillies off wins in the Kentucky Oaks and Alabama. She turned in a strong drill, going six furlongs in 1:11.60. Baffert had her galloping out a mile in 1:38. Her next start will be the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion the same day as the Pennsylvania Derby.

“She’s my MVP,” Baffert said.

Baffert also worked Collected, the Pacific Classic winner, and Vale Dori, runner-up last time in the Clement Hirsch, both of whom are pointing for races at Santa Anita on Sept. 30.

Collected, who went so easy in his three-furlong drill that clockers termed the 37-second work breezing, is being pointed to the Awesome Again. His main goal is the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic here on Nov. 4.

“He loves this place,” Baffert said.

Vale Dori, who will run in the Grade 1, $300,000 Zenyatta next time, went four furlongs in 49.40 seconds.

Champagne Room, last year’s champion 2-year-old filly and winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, continued her solid series of works for her comeback with a six-furlong move in 1:13.60. Her trainer, Peter Eurton, said Champagne Room would return in the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks on Sept. 24.