Free: Del Mar horses to watch for week of Aug. 21
LAJATICO
Trainer: Doug O’Neill
Last race: Aug. 16, 3rd
Finish: 1st by 1 1/4
Beyer: 88
A fast pace over a closers-friendly course did not foil this vastly improved front-runner, who wired second-level allowance foes with a career-best Beyer Figure. Turf sprint filly is in peak form, and longer distances are ahead at Santa Anita.
BOLSTER
Trainer: Leonard Powell
Last race: Aug. 16, 4th
Finish: 1st by 4 1/4
Beyer: 79
A full brother to Grade 1-winning sprinter Points Offthebench, this recently gelded maiden crushed statebred maiden-50s and should score right back in a starter allowance.
MY BOO
Trainer: Gary Sherlock
Last race: Aug 18, 4th
Finish: 2nd by a nose
Beyer: 64
A California-bred 2-year-old sired by Ghostzapper, this colt finished with a rush in promising career debut. Maidens from this stable typically improve with racing.
MOONSHINE MEMORIES
Trainer: Simon Callaghan
Last race: Aug. 19, 6th
Finish: 1st by 1
Beyer: 83
This debut 2-year-old filly wired the field in a fast six-furlong time of 1:10.08 and galloped out super past the wire. Sharp win by good filly. She runs next in the Grade 1 Chandelier Sept. 30 at Santa Anita.
MEADOWSWEET
Trainer: Cliff Sise
Last race: Aug. 19, 10th
Finish: 5th by 2
Beyer: 88
She did not relax pressing the Del Mar Oaks pace, made the lead in the lane, and tired to fifth. That was a good effort in her fourth start. She is one to follow on a Santa Anita turf more conducive to speed.