DEL MAR, Calif. – Beholder, who returned a winner from a four-month layoff in the Torrey Pines Stakes on Sunday, came out of the race “great,” her trainer, Richard Mandella, said Monday morning at Del Mar, and now will be pointed to the Grade 1 Zenyatta Stakes on Sept. 28 at Santa Anita.
STANTON. Del. – Tomorrow’s Tale shoots for his third straight win Wednesday in the $50,000 Damitrius Stakes at Delaware Park, but he will have to beat Smash, who comes from Belmont Park for the powerful Bob Baffert stable. Seven are slated to run in the six-furlong stakes for 3-year-olds and up.
Departing is set for Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs after turning in his final breeze for the race Monday at Churchill Downs. He will lead an anticipated field of six to eight starters.
Others confirmed for the 1 1/8-mile race include Bashaar, the fourth-place finisher in the Jim Dandy, and Cameo Appearance and Treasury Bill, a pair of stakes-placed runners trained by Wayne Catalano.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jeff Treadway has been attending horse auctions for about five years in search of a good horse. He has found some he thought fit the bill, only to have them suffer from injury or infirmity and end their careers prematurely.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Alberts Hope rose to the top of California’s male 2-year-old division with a win in the Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes earlier this meet, and he’ll try to retain that position Wednesday in the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Futurity, highlight of the closing-day card here.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Rail Trip, the millionaire 8-year-old gelding, needs a start in Wednesday’s $90,000 Pirate’s Bounty Stakes at Del Mar to stay on schedule for a fall campaign at Santa Anita. and a start in the Breeders’ Cup.
He is not the only runner in the six-furlong race in that situation.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Diamond Bachelor has had a lofty reputation since he walked out of the Barretts March sale of 2-year-olds in training this year after selling for $570,000. He did little to dampen the expectations when he beat maidens in his debut over a mile on turf at Del Mar on Aug. 8.
Toss out Count the Change’s most recent race, where she was overmatched in a $35,000 optional claimer Aug. 16, and she looks like the one to beat in Wednesday’s feature at Northlands Park.
The one-mile, $25,000 optional claimer for fillies and mares drew five horses and goes as race 2 on an eight-race card that begins at 6 p.m. Mountain.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Paynter, who finished a well-beaten last of five as the favorite in Saturday’s $735,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga, will start in the $250,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 28, trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The Labor Day pick six at Del Mar on Monday will begin with $297,538 already in the till, the result of a carryover from Sunday, when all tickets were dead after the first five legs of the wager.
The Monday card has 11 races, so the pick six will begin with race 6. Post time for that race is about 4:30 p.m. Pacific. The day's first race is at the usual 2 p.m.
There are at least 10 runners in all six legs of the pick six, including the featured Grade 2, $150,000 Yellow Ribbon Handicap, in which course specialist Halo Dolly will defend her title.
