DEL MAR, Calif. – The Mark Glatt-trained La Wally made a solid debut to win a five-furlong maiden race for 2-year-old fillies Saturday, gaining a spot on the list of candidates for the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 6.

La Wally ($14.20) stalked the pace and needed the entire stretch to reach the front, winning by a nose over even-money favorite Cherry Cider. Ridden by Antonio Fresu, La Wally was timed in 58.25 seconds.

“It took her every bit of the five-eighths to get up,” Glatt said. “I was a little bit concerned you could catch a fast horse in a five-furlong race.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Dr. Venkman won the $300,000 San Diego Handicap last summer at Del Mar for trainer Mark Glatt but will not be part of Saturday’s race. Instead, Dr. Venkman will start in the $400,000 Bing Crosby Stakes.

Glatt had a quick response Sunday as to why Dr. Venkman has been redirected to the Bing Crosby.

“One word – Nysos,” Glatt said. “That’s primarily the reason.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Two-time stakes winner Mi Hermano Ramon will miss Sunday’s Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar and will not resume racing until the winter at Santa Anita.

Trainer Mark Glatt said Sunday that Mi Hermano Ramon will “get a little break.”

“He’s a little tired,” Glatt said. “He shipped and ran a few times this year. He’s a gelding, and we’ll freshen him and point for the Santa Anita winter meeting.”

The Santa Anita winter-spring meeting begins Dec. 26.

DEL MAR, Calif. – A well-bred filly whose career debut was initially delayed and a stakes filly who is shortening in distance and dropping in class will start over Thursday at Del Mar.

In between the debut of speedster Curtsy in race 1 and a low-odds start by allowance favorite Splendora in race 7 are split divisions of a competitive California-bred allowance turf sprint. Regal Patriot and Sir Rocket top races 4 and 6, respectively.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There is no flat stakes on Wednesday at Saratoga, the only black-type race being the Grade 1, $150,000 A.P. Smithwick Steeplechase, but there is a pick six carryover of $102,004 that might pique handicappers’ interest on the nine-race card.

There are four dirt races and two scheduled for turf in the pick six sequence that begins in race 4. Here’s a look at the races:

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Apprentice Xarel Forde has made quite an impression at Woodbine this year, winning on a series of longshots that has led to more opportunity. The 21-year-old native of Barbados has four mounts Thursday at Woodbine, beginning with Right Brightly in the first and Cefalo in the second.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Skelly, the 4-1 choice on the morning line, has been scratched from Saturday’s Grade 2, $400,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes, trainer Steve Asmussen said Friday.

“It’d take his best to win that,” Asmussen said. “He was not himself this week.”

Asmussen said that he doesn’t plan on taking Skelly out of training, explaining that the horse “just needs more time.”

Skelly is a seven-time stakes winner who finished second in the Vanderbilt last year.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In dual classic winner Sovereignty, Bill Mott has the top 3-year-old in the division. In Stars and Stripes, he has a 3-year-old seemingly on the rise.

Stars and Stripes, a son of Not This Time, won his second straight race by a blowout margin when he took a first-level allowance by 7 1/4 lengths here on Thursday. That followed a 10 1/2-length maiden score at Aqueduct in the slop on June 15.

Unlike his maiden win, Stars and Stripes came from seven lengths back on Thursday and was caked in dirt when he returned to be unsaddled.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It’s not often you’ll find a multiple Grade 1 winner in a restricted stakes, but Chancer McPatrick was one of eight 3-year-olds entered Friday for next Thursday’s $135,000 Curlin Stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/8 miles. The Curlin is open to 3-year-olds who have not won a graded stakes at a mile or over in 2025.

Chancer McPatrick won the Grade 1 Hopeful here last summer, as well as the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes at Aqueduct in the fall. He is winless in four starts since.