The eagerly anticipated return of horse racing at Del Mar begins this Friday as the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club hosts its sixth consecutive “Hollywood” fall race meeting, known affectionately – and with a tip of...

Del Mar patrons will have 17 different ways to wager during the track’s 15-day Bing Crosby Season meet beginning this coming Friday and running through Sunday, December 1. The betting menu starts with the traditional...

Helen Woodward Equine Therapeutic Riding Program As it has for the past 80 summers – and now, too, for the past five falls – Del Mar takes pride in hosting a series of highly worthy...

The 3-year-old filly Proud Emma was one of Del Mar’s successful “Ship and Win” horses in 2018. © Benoit Photo “Ship and Win,” the simple horse recruitment program that has proven highly effective over the...

Lynn Wright (Left) and Ann Hall Del Mar Thoroughbred announces the promotion of two of its corporate officers: Ann Hall was promoted to Senior Vice President, Operations and Administration and Lynn Wright was promoted to...

With the national spotlight on equine safety and welfare, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club concluded its 80th summer meeting today as the safest major racetrack in the United States for the second consecutive year. After...

Catalina Cruiser © Benoit Photo Catalina Cruiser, who completed the unprecedented double of winning the San Diego Handicap and Pat O’Brien Stakes two years in a row, was selected Del Mar’s Horse of the Meeting...

Kosta and Pete Hronis Hronis Racing swept to their fifth Del Mar owner title during the course of Del Mar’s 36-day summer season, winning nine races and a record $1,441,077 in purses. Among those nine...

Doug O'Neill © Benoit Photo Flavien Prat and Doug O’Neill took their places atop the jockey and trainer leader boards midway through the meeting and stayed to the end in winning titles for the 80th...

Sunday Silence and jockey Patrick Valenzuela working at Del Mar on 9-9-89. By Hank Wesch Thoroughbred workouts can be gold, or fool’s gold. Gold when they prove to be an indicator of readiness for a...