DEL MAR, Calif. - Ethical Diamond put the famous Irish jumps trainer Willie Mullins in the winner’s circle of an American flat race for the first time with a surprise win in Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar.

The 27-1 victory has given Mullins the needed excuse to target other seven-figure races in the Middle East in coming months with Ethical Diamond, specifically the Group 1, $6 million Sheema Classic at 1 1/2 miles on turf in Dubai on March 28.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Balantina may have a two-continent campaign in 2026.

The winner of Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Balantina is set to return to trainer Donnacha O’Brien’s stable in Ireland this week. O’Brien said on Saturday that Balantina will run in a Group 1 1000 Guineas race in May, followed by the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at a mile at Royal Ascot in June.

Balantina, owned by Medallion Racing, Parkland Thoroughbreds, Reeves Thoroughbreds and Lissa Ann McNulty, has won 2 of 6 starts and earned $574,440.

Flavien Prat won seven races on Sunday’s card on the final day of the Belmont at the Big A meet, establishing a New York Racing Association record for wins by a jockey on a single card. 

Nineteen jockeys had won six races on a card - Ramon Dominguez did it three times - and there had been 25 occasions on which that happened. Prat won six consecutive races on the card, making him the seventh rider to do that. 

DEL MAR, Calif. - The connections of White Abarrio, upset about the circumstances surrounding the on-track scratch of their horse just minutes before the start of Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar, said they do plan on racing the horse again. 

“He’s definitely going to race again,” Mark Cornett, part owner of White Abarrio, said Sunday morning at Del Mar. “There’s no reason not to race the horse again.” 

DEL MAR, Calif. - She’s Quality, who was pulled up in the opening furlong of Saturday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar, was euthanized on Sunday morning at a Southern California veterinary clinic because of complications from a pelvis injury.

She’s Quality’s death was reported on social media by trainer Jack Davison.

The message, in part, said, “I am devastated to report that our stable star She’s Quality has passed away, having suffered a pelvic fracture during the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.”

DEL MAR, Calif. - Admittedly hung over, behind dark sunglasses, wearing a wide-brim hat with Torrey Pines emblazoned on it and a Shohei Ohtani T-shirt, Yoshito Yahagi could have been mistaken for any jubilant Los Angeles Dodgers fan early Sunday morning. 

Except the Ohtani shirt was underneath a red jacket with “Forever Young” stitched on it and Yahagi was addressing a gaggle of media the morning after the Japan-based and -bred Forever Young won the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar. 

DEL MAR, Calif. - Tamara, scratched from Saturday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint by veterinarians, will be considered for the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on turf at Del Mar on Nov. 30 pending an examination, trainer Richard Mandella said on Sunday.

Tamara was the 7-2 second choice on the morning line for the Filly and Mare Sprint. Tamara, a winner of 3 of 5 starts, has never raced on turf.

“I’ve got to work on the turf and think about that,” Mandella said of the $300,000 Matriarch.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Despite getting an extra hour’s sleep the night before, trainer Jose D’Angelo still sounded a bit drained from the emotions of the previous afternoon when he returned to his barn early Sunday morning to check on his two Breeders’ Cup winners, Bentornato and Shisospicy.

“It was such an amazing day, so exciting, but there was also so much pressure that goes along with it just getting these horses here,” D’Angelo said. “We were supposed to go out to a party last night to celebrate. Instead, we were so tired, we just stayed in and ate dinner at the hotel.”