Del Mar opener offers many highlights

DEL MAR, Calif. – An overflow field for the featured Oceanside Stakes, plus races for maiden 2-year-old fillies featuring some well-regarded newcomers, highlight the opening-day card at Del Mar on Wednesday, for which entries were taken and posts drawn on Saturday.

The Oceanside, at one mile on turf for 3-year-olds, includes Faversham, the full brother to California Chrome who won a maiden race last time out, as well as Desert Stone and Move Over. It goes as race 8 on the 10-race card.

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Also of interest are a pair of maiden races for 2-year-old fillies – one an open race, the other restricted to California-breds – and there are some fast-working first-time starters in the open race, most notably Angel Alessandra (Ghostzapper) for Peter Miller and Brill (Medaglia d'Oro) for Jerry Hollendorfer. That five-furlong race goes as race 7.