Bernier: How I'll play Del Mar for Sunday, Aug. 7

Sunday's featured event at Del Mar is the $75,000 Osunitas for fillies and mares, and I'm particularly interested in one of the runners in there. I'll look to be alive to her in the payoff leg of a daily double consisting of races 6 and 7.

Race 6

Both TRIBAL JEWEL (4) and SAINT DERMOT (6) exit the Bottom Line Starter Handicap on July 4, and from a speed figure standpoint they're strictly the horses to beat. Tribal Jewel was defeated at odds of 4-5 that day, but the plan for Rafael Bejarano is likely the same - send his 7-year-old gelding to the front and try to hang on. The Del Mar main track has been a bit on the speed-friendly side throughout the first few weeks of the meeting, so there really shouldn't be any sort of excuse for Tribal Jewel; if he gets beat, it will be due to the fact that he's simply not good enough. Saint Dermot projects to sit off the pace as he did one and three starts back, and if things get contentious on the front end, this Mark Glatt trainee is the most likely to take advantage. I'll use both of them with equal weight in the first leg of the double.

Race 7

This year's edition of the Osunitas features a graded stakes-caliber field, and even though it appears to be a wide-open affair, there's one filly that I find very intriguing. ENTRECHAT (8) broke through in a big way most recently against inferior competition, earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 97. Trainer Neil Drysdale appears to have this daughter of Giant's Causeway in career form, and a forward move in her second route off the layoff would make her very salty. She'll be my key in this daily double play, and I'll also entertain the idea of playing her to win at odds of 9-2 or greater.