ARCADIA, Calif. – Sharp wins on Saturday at Santa Anita by the 3-year-old filly Thought Process in an allowance and the veteran gelding Motorious in the Grade 3 Daytona Stakes for turf sprinters have put the multiple stakes winners on course for stakes at the Del Mar summer meeting. Thought Process, who won two one-mile turf stakes last year, led throughout a one-mile race on turf to prevail by 5 3/4 lengths in 1:33.35. She earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 88 in a performance designed as a prep for the Grade 2 San Clemente Stakes at a mile on turf for 3-year-old fillies on July 19 at Del Mar. “That was a nice comeback and should be a good tightener for the San Clemente,” Phil D’Amato, who trains both horses, said on Sunday morning. D’Amato projects Thought Process will show improvement in coming starts. “I don’t know how cranked up I had her,” he said. :: Playing Santa Anita? Get the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports available now. Owned by the partnership of Madaket Stable, the family of the late Brereton Jones, and the Little Red Feather Racing syndicate, Thought Process had not raced since she finished ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar last November. Motorious, who won the fifth stakes of his career in the $100,500 Daytona Stakes at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course, will have a light summer campaign designed to have the 7-year-old gelding in peak form this fall for the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 1. Motorious is not likely to race again until the Grade 3 Green Flash Handicap at five furlongs on turf at Del Mar on Aug. 30, a race he has won the last two years. Motorious was fifth in the 2023 BC Turf Sprint at Santa Anita and second by a neck to Starlust in the same race at Del Mar last November. D’Amato said Motorious had a later start to his 2025 season with the hope of sending the veteran to Saudi Arabia or Dubai for lucrative stakes in early 2026. “We did this so hopefully we’ll have him later in the year and maybe next year,” D’Amato said. “We’ll see if we can do something like Saudi or Dubai, a change on what we’ve done the last couple of years.” Owned by Anthony Fanticola, Motorious has won 9 of 22 starts and earned $876,604. D’Amato, 49, led all trainers at the Santa Anita spring meeting with 27 wins, seven more than John Sadler. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.