Camino Del Paraiso © Benoit 

 

Six talented three-year-olds will match strides Saturday in the featured $75,000-added Let It Ride Stakes at one-mile over Del Mar’s infield Jimmy Durante Turf Course. Post time for the first of nine races is 12:30 p.m.

 

Riding a three-race victory streak is Camino Del Paraiso, who will be piloted by Ricardo Gonzalez. After breaking his maiden over the Del Mar grass last summer, the O.J. Jauregui-trained son of Suances ventured north to Golden Gate Fields and won his next two efforts in easy style over that track’s synthetic surface.

 

Curlin Rules, owned by Hronis Racing and trained by John Sadler, figures to show speed in the Let It Ride Stakes and will have Tyler Baze aboard. The Kentucky-bred son of Curlin won wire-to-wire at the Let It Ride distance last summer.

 

Others in the line-up are Little Scotty, with Kent Desormeaux; Defiantly, Gary Stevens; French-bred Barhanpour, Mike Smith, and Irish-bred Mittersill, Flavien Prat.