DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer John Sadler said that Inspiressa, impressive winner of a 2-year-old maiden race for fillies on Sunday, will be considered for the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Debutante on Aug. 31.
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Doing so would require her coming back 20 days following her debut, but she breezed home under Victor Espinoza while receiving a Beyer Speed Figure of 82.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Game Winner is ready for the Travers. He worked a sharp six furlongs at Del Mar on Tuesday morning in 1:12 under Joe Talamo, after which his trainer, Bob Baffert, said, "He's doing the best he's done all year long."
"But he's needs to be doing his best," Baffert added. "He's gonna have to lay it down."
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DEL MAR, Calif. –Through the first four weeks of the meet, not a single horse has suffered a catastrophic injury in a race, as Del Mar has changed the narrative in Southern California following a tumultuous season at Santa Anita that had all eyes on safety heading into the meeting here.
“We’re still holding our breath,” Joe Harper, the track’s chief executive, said late on the card on Sunday. Harper cited extensive safety protocols, including additional veterinary oversight, as reasons for the run of good fortune.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Schrodinger, scratched from the Best Pal as the morning-line favorite on Saturday, seems to be rebounding from his brief high temperature and should be on course for the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Futurity on closing day Sept. 2, according to trainer Simon Callaghan.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Summer Sunday returned to the work tab on Saturday for the first time since capturing her third consecutive victory in the Grade 2 Royal North Stakes on turf on July 21. She breezed five furlongs on the Tapeta in 1:01.00, and trainer Stu Simon said Summer Sunday would likely return to the synthetic for her next two starts.
DEL MAR, Calif. – It will be nearly impossible for trainer Phil D’Amato to win the training title at the current Del Mar summer meeting. A rough first two weeks, in which his stable had one win from 27 runners, makes that goal nearly impossible before the meeting ends Sept. 2.
Through Sunday, D’Amato was tied for seventh in the standings with six wins, 10 fewer than leader Doug O’Neill. Until Sunday, when O’Neill had two runner-up finishes, D’Amato and O’Neill were tied for the most seconds at the meet with nine.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There are six Grade 1 stakes scheduled at Saratoga on Aug. 24, and trainer Steve Asmussen is pointing horses to five of them. Early Monday morning, Asmussen had several of those runners put in their major workouts over the Oklahoma training track in preparation for those events.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Omaha Beach continued his impressive training pattern with a six-furlong work in 1:13.60 on Monday morning at Del Mar, after which trainer Richard Mandella said he expected Omaha Beach to be ready to return in the $100,000 Shared Belief Stakes at one mile here on Aug. 25.
“Right now, I’d say yes, it’s a go,” Mandella said.
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DEL MAR, Calif. – Catalina Cruiser won’t run in the Pacific Classic on Saturday, as he will cut back to seven furlongs for his next race, but where that race will take place has yet to be determined, trainer John Sadler said Monday morning at Del Mar.
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Final Jeopardy heads the list of 12 horses likely to start in the Grade 3, $250,000 Canadian Derby on Sunday at Century Mile. Traditionally contested around four turns at 1 3/8 miles at the now-closed Northlands Park, this year’s edition will be at 1 1/4 miles with just two turns.
Final Jeopardy figures to be a short price. He is coming off a runner-up finish in the Grade 3 Dwyer on July 6 at Belmont for trainer Jason Servis. After being purchased for an undisclosed sum by Peter and James Redekop, he will be making his first start for Phil Hall, the leading trainer at Hastings.
