DEL MAR, Calif. – She has a perfect record after three starts, comes from a top stable, and will be ridden by the leading jockey.

Executiveprivilege seems to have everything in her favor going into Saturday’s $300,000 Del Mar Debutante for 2-year-old fillies.

At stake is a chance to enhance her status as a top contender for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita on Nov. 2. But that race was not foremost on trainer Bob Baffert’s mind earlier this week – at least not publicly.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The top finishers in the Pacific Classic on Sunday at Del Mar all came out of the race in good order, their connections said Monday morning, but the paths each will take in coming months could not be more different.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Just when it looked like this year’s crop of 3-year-olds was going to slink quietly into the background, Dullahan struck a blow for the division on Sunday by defeating a top group of older horses in the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic before a crowd of 34,482 at Del Mar.

Casino Host earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Turf over 1 1/2 miles at Santa Anita on Nov. 3 with his victory in the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap on Saturday.

The BC Turf will be the first time that the 4-year-old Casino Host has started over 1 1/2 miles. In the $200,000 Del Mar Handicap over 1 3/8 miles on turf, Casino Host ($9.60) won by a neck over Dhaamer, the 6-5 favorite.

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Though Steve Asmussen nominated both Tapizar and Prayer for Relief to next weekend's Woodward at Saratoga, he has other spots picked out for those horses.

Tapizar, coming off a 4 1/2-length victory in the West Virginia Governors Stakes at Mountaineer on Aug. 4, is being pointed to the Grade 2, $400,000 Kelso at Belmont Park on Sept. 29. The Kelso is a one-turn mile on the dirt and is designed to get Tapizar to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 3.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Without a formidable foe like It’s Tricky to tangle with, Turbulent Descent danced to victory in Friday's Grade 1, $500,000 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga.

Gantry, the Louisiana-based runner being pointed for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, has had a quiet month and a half since winning the Grade 2, $400,000 Smile Sprint Handicap at Calder Race Course. But he made some noise last weekend, when he worked a bullet five furlongs in his first drill since the Florida start. And this coming Saturday, Sept. 1, he is scheduled to work again while his connections debate his prep options for the BC Sprint, a Grade 1, $1.5 million race to be run at Santa Anita on Nov. 3.

[bc_video_id:261074:]SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – They have combined to win 15 of 24 starts, 10 graded stakes, and accrued $3.7 million in purses. One is the champion 3-year-old filly of 2011; the other is undefeated in three starts this year.

Ortensia, the 7-year-old Australian mare, won the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes for sprinters at York on Friday, her second consecutive group stakes win in England.

It may not be long before she tries for a third. Trainer Paul Messara mentioned the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock on Sept. 8 as her next goal.

Ridden in the five-furlong Nunthorpe by William Buick, Ortensia, the 7-2 joint favorite, closed from 17th in a field of 19 to win by a neck over Spirit Quartz, a 14-1 shot ridden by Frankie Dettori. Hamish McGonagall, a 14-1 shot who set the pace, finished third.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The rivalry between the barns of trainers Bob Baffert and Doug O’Neill has been the focal point in the days leading up to the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Sunday, but the steel-cage match has been several months in the making.