DEL MAR, Calif. - Point Cadet, a half-sister to Point Given who was acquired as a yearling for $875,000, makes her belated debut in Wednesday’s fifth race, for female maidens going six furlongs.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Michael Matz has a surfeit of talented 3-year-old turf fillies and had nominated Assateague, Colonial Flag, Somali Lemonade, and Welcome Dance to last Saturday’s $161,300 Ontario Colleen Stakes. Only Colonial Flag ran, proving one length the best under Joe Rocco Jr. in the Grade 3 Ontario Colleen over one mile of the E.P. Taylor course.

Colonial Flag, based at Maryland’s Fair Hill training center, finished last of eighth at Betfair Hollywood Park in the Grade 1 American Oaks at 1 1/4 miles in her race before the Colleen.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Fueled by an ontrack crowd of 34,482 and an overall handle of $22,363,307 for the Pacific Classic card on Sunday, Del Mar’s business figures continued their forward march from the previous week, with the daily handle now averaging $12,019,469 per day, an 8.1 percent increase from the comparable first 30 days of the 2011 meeting.

Falling Knife was claimed for $25,000 on Aug. 9 at Del Mar by trainer Billy Morey expressly to run in the $30,790 C.J. Hindley Humboldt County Marathon at the Humboldt County Fair. He made the claim pay off Sunday with an eight-length victory in the 1 5/8-mile race.

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.

DEL MAR, Calif.- A simple career change this summer turned Obviously  from a struggling turf sprinter into a record-setting graded stakes winner.

“All we did is route him,” trainer Mike Mitchell said.

Sunday at Del Mar, Obviously, a 4-year-old gelding, won his second consecutive race over a mile on turf in the $200,000 Del Mar Mile. He led throughout and set a course record of 1:32.10, edging the previous mark of 1:32.21 set by Three Valleys in 2005.

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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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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.-   It’s rarely called a surprise when a Todd Pletcher trained horse wins any stakes,  let alone  an important race like the $600,000 Personal Ensign. But that was the case Sunday at Saratoga after Love and Pride outlasted the 2011 champion 3-year-old filly Royal Delta and unlucky It’s Tricky to upset the Personal Ensign for her first Grade 1 win.  

DEL MAR, Calif. - A slow early pace gave Capital Account an advantage when he reached the stretch in Sunday’s $250,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes at Del Mar.

Trailing by two lengths after a half-mile of the seven-furlong race, Capital Account was close enough to pounce on the front-runners. When the race became a sprint to the finish, Capital Account became a stakes winner for the first time.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – Howe Great, the three-time stakes winner on turf, has had a summer campaign geared toward a Labor Day weekend appearance in California.

He will arrive on the West Coast this week with an excellent chance to win Sunday’s $300,000 Del Mar Derby, a Grade 2 race over 1 1/8 miles on turf. He is the lone shipper from another circuit, but could pose the greatest danger for the locals.

The winner of the Jersey Derby at Monmouth Park on July 21, Howe Great will be shipped from trainer Graham Motion’s base in Maryland on Wednesday.