Clement plans to stable a dozen at Del Mar in fall
DEL MAR, Calif. – Christophe Clement likes to ship horses to California for stakes races. He’s thinking of staying a little longer this fall.
Clement said he plans on keeping about a dozen horses at Del Mar for its fall meeting, which comes on the heels of the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita and takes up many of the dates formerly held by Hollywood Park, which closed last December.
Many of the stakes run during the fall turf festival at Hollywood Park, such as the Hollywood Derby and Matriarch, are scheduled to be run at Del Mar this fall. Clement often sent horses to those races. Summer Front, for instance, came to the turf festival in both 2012 and 2013.
“I am thinking of staying,” said Clement, who is based in New York but decamps to Payson Park in Florida for the winter. “It’s a good time of year. I’m planning on having 12 stalls.”