Edwards Going Left © Benoit Photo

Nine California-bred Thoroughbreds with a preference for sprinting, including the defending champion, Edwards Going Left, will match quickness Sunday in the $100,000 Cary Grant Stakes at seven furlongs over Del Mar’s main track.

Regular rider Tyler Baze has the call from trainer John Sadler aboard Edwards Going Left, who was a game half-length winner of the Cary Grant last fall over Solid Wager, one of eight rivals in Sunday’s renewal of the contest. Drayden Van Dyke will pilot Solid Wager.

Also entered in what appears to be an intriguing betting race are Tough But Nice, Geovanni Franco; Touching Rainbows, Flavien Prat; Brandothebartender, Joe Talamo; Minoso, Gary Stevens; Shades of Victory, Martin Pedroza; Ann Arbor Eddie, Mario Gutierrez, and Gracian Fire, Rafael Bejarano.

Likely to attract support is Touching Rainbows, a good third behind Ransom the Moon and Roy H (Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner) in last summer’s Grade I Bing Crosby. Subsequently, he was third in the Green Flash and ninth in the Eddie D., both races on grass.

Tough But Nice and Brandothebartender come into the Carry Grant off victories in their last starts.

First race post time Sunday is 12:30 p.m. with nine races on the program.