DEL MAR, Calif. - Pizza Bianca delivered for trainer Christophe Clement and owner and breeder Bobby Flay when she rallied through a crowded field to win Friday’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar.

Flay, the celebrity chef, bought White Hot, Pizza Bianca’s dam, for approximately $2 million as a yearling in England in 2014. By Galileo, White Hot, a half-sister to 2011 English Derby winner Pour Moi, did not race. Pizza Bianca is her first foal.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Loves Only You and Marche Lorraine, who gave Japan its first two victories in the Breeders’ Cup held Saturday at Del Mar, will soon be going their separate ways after being nearly inseparable training buddies for the approximately two weeks they were in Southern California.

DEL MAR, Calif. – A wicked pace derailed favorite Letruska in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Saturday at Del Mar, but the morning after her 10th-place finish trainer Fausto Gutierrez was looking forward to next year.

Gutierrez said Sunday that plans call for Letruska to campaign at age 6. “We need to be there at Keeneland,” Gutierrez said, referring to the 2022 Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 4-5. Letruska trained at Keeneland most of spring through fall. She won her only start over the track on Oct. 10 in the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes.

DEL MAR, Calif. - In a year in which Ce Ce won two Grade 1 stakes and placed in a third, trainer Michael McCarthy was a bit surprised the filly did not attain a spot as finalist for an Eclipse Award in the older dirt female division for 2020.

“This year, I had it in mind that wasn’t going to happen,” McCarthy said.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The top runners from the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar on Friday, most notably the unbeaten Echo Zulu, will get vacations before commencing their 3-year-old campaigns, with the Kentucky Oaks on May 6 at Churchill Downs the target.

The route many take to get there might depend on Echo Zulu’s plans. Can you blame them? Who would want to take her on quite yet?

DEL MAR, Calif. - Trainer Wesley Ward continued his dominance of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint on Friday, sending out Twilight Gleaming, Kaufymaker and the favored Averly Jane to finish first, third, and fifth respectively in the youngest race on the Breeders’ Cup agenda. And he is looking forward to bringing all three back for even bigger and better things in 2022.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Space Blues isn’t soaring off into the ether, but his connections hope the horse’s definitive win Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Mile will help launch his stallion career.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Life Is Good was full of energy Saturday afternoon when crushing his rivals in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar, and he was his usual, good-feeling self on Sunday morning, trainer Todd Pletcher said.

“He’s very good this morning. I’m happy with the way he looks,” Pletcher said at his temporary barn office at Del Mar.

Life Is Good got a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 109 for his romping win, his first in a Grade 1 race.

DEL MAR, Calif. - There was a little strain in trainer Wayne Catalano’s voice back at the barn early Sunday morning at Del Mar, a condition befitting what must have been a long and raucous celebration following his fourth and latest Breeders’ Cup victory with Aloha West the previous afternoon at Del Mar in the $2 million Sprint.

Fortunately for Catalano, his horse seemed to be doing a lot better than he was the morning after the race.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Win a $6 million race on Saturday night, enter horses for Aqueduct and Churchill Downs the next morning. Such was life for trainer Brad Cox on Sunday morning at Del Mar, where he reflected on the Breeders’ Cup Classic victory by Knicks Go while keeping his far-flung operation humming on all cylinders, with phone calls to New York and Kentucky.