Reneesgotzip retired

The outstanding sprint mare Reneesgotzip has been retired, trainer Peter Miller said Thursday.

Reneesgotzip, age 5, finished ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 1 in her last start. That completed a career in which she won eight times in 16 starts and earned $869,860. The daughter of City Zip is owned by Debbie Lanni.

Her victories include the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo here in 2013, as well as the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita in 2012. She was second in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks, Las Virgenes, and La Brea in 2012 and finished second and third in the Grade 1 BC Turf Sprint in 2013 and 2012, respectively.

** Count Rodolphe Brisset as a convert to the appeal of Del Mar. Brisset, a top assistant to trainer Bill Mott, arrived here Wednesday and took his first tour of the track Thursday, when his assignments included a routine morning of training for the filly Modernstone, who is entered in the Grade 3, $100,000 Red Carpet Handicap on Saturday.

“When the boss called me and asked if I wanted to go to Del Mar, I said, ‘Sure,’ ” Brisset said. “When we loaded the plane, it was 15 degrees, but the wind-chill made it feel like 2. This is the only major track I’d never been to in this country. I’ll tell you one thing – you can’t beat the view.”

** Jockeys Tyler Baze and Mike Smith are absent from Del Mar on Saturday in order to ride in the Delta Downs Jackpot at Delta Downs.

** Apprentice jockey Drayden Van Dyke was suspended for three days by Del Mar’s stewards for his ride on Desert Madam in the first race Nov. 14, but Van Dyke received a stay and thus is riding this weekend. In their ruling suspending Van Dyke, stewards cited him for “failure to make the proper effort to maintain a straight course … and causing interference.” Desert Madam was not disqualified in the race.