Last year, trainer Brad Cox used Delaware Park as a springboard for Idiomatic’s epic campaign culminating with a Breeders’ Cup Distaff victory and an Eclipse Award as outstanding older dirt female.

Cox looks to repeat in Sunday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Delaware Handicap for fillies and mares at 1 3/16 miles, this time with Godolphin homebred Wet Paint.

In 2023, Wet Paint won three graded stakes, including the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks. She completed her season with an eighth-place finish against Idiomatic in the Distaff.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The yearling sale season in North America jumps out of the gate with Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky selected summer yearling sale – and early blooming youngsters with solid physical development get a jump on their class here.

There are 286 yearlings cataloged for the single-session sale at Fasig-Tipton’s Newtown Paddocks headquarters. The yearlings were selected by Fasig-Tipton’s inspection team based on conformation and pedigree.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – With strong positioning immediately prior to the marquee summer meets at Saratoga, Del Mar, and other tracks, a catalog of promising young stock, and a list of recent graduates including millionaire Grade 1 winners Atone and Stilleto Boy, the Fasig-Tipton July horses of racing age sale is poised for another solid renewal Monday afternoon at the company’s Newtown Paddocks headquarters.

CYPRESS, Calif. – The lightly-raced 3-year-old Where’s the Loot could go from a start in an allowance race at Los Alamitos on Sunday to a stakes appearance at Del Mar in early August.

Trained by Tim Yakteen for Sausalito Partners LLC, Where’s the Loot will have his third career start in an allowance race for California-breds at 6 1/2 furlongs, the final race on a nine-race program.

The Los Alamitos summer meeting ends Sunday. There is a mandatory payout in the $2 pick six. Del Mar begins its summer meeting on July 20.

Lammas won the Grade 3 San Francisco Mile on turf on April 27 at Golden Gate Fields, running past a field that included several shippers from Southern California.

To win Sunday’s $150,000 Pleasanton Mile on dirt at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Calif., Lammas must beat another group of shippers from the south while making his first start on dirt in nearly two years.

Judging from the quickness of his recent works on the Pleasanton surface, Lammas should handle the surface switch in the richest race on the Northern California fair circuit.

The turf course at Gulfstream Park re-opened for business earlier this week after a brief maintenance period during the month of June and will see stakes action for the first time this summer when a field of 11 older horses head postward, weather permitting, in Sunday’s $100,000 Soldier’s Dancer.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Empressum can become the second horse to win three consecutive runnings of the $150,000 Vessels Maturity on Sunday at Los Alamitos, the track’s leading race of the summer for older Quarter Horses.

To help his chances of claiming the title of 2024 World Champion Quarter Horse, which he won in a brilliant 2022 campaign, Empressum needs a win Sunday evening to boost his current-year credentials.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Little Teddy will try to mow down the speed in the $100,000 Georgian Bay, one of two five-furlong inner-turf stakes for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds Sunday at Woodbine, along with the $100,000 Lake Huron for the boys.

The races are the first of four $100,000 legs of the Ontario Sired Heritage Series for each sex, which are contested over different distances and surfaces. Trainer Santino DiPaola opted for this series for Little Teddy rather than try the 1 1/8-mile Woodbine Oaks on July 20.

The debuting Bodi Zafa is worth taking a shot with in the $50,000 King County Express over 5 1/2 furlongs at Emerald Downs on Sunday.

Seven 2-year-old colts and geldings are scheduled to assemble Sunday afternoon for the first local stakes opportunity of the season for their division. The group includes a pair who have already won at least one race along with a trio of first-time starters.

Trainer Tom Wenzel will send out Bodi Zafa, who was a $45,000 Keeneland sale purchase last September for owner George Todaro.

Multiple Grade 3-placed Style Points is the 2-1 morning-line favorite in Monday’s $150,000 Christiana Stakes for 3-year-old fillies traveling 1 1/8 miles on turf at Delaware Park.

The Christiana is one of four stakes on the 10-race program.

Trained by Christophe Clement, Style Points had a productive winter in Florida, placing in the Sweetest Chant at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 3 before finishing second in the Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs.