Del Mar News & Announcements

These announcements and Press Releases are updated frequently. For Stable Notes and other race-related news, you can read our Stable News.

Over $600,000 Now Raised to Help Victims of Last Week's San Luis Rey Downs Training Center Fire by The Stronach Group/Santa Anita & Del Mar GoFundMe Effort

$250,000 Has Been Approved for Immediate Dispersal to Assist with Urgent Expenses More than $600,000 currently has been raised via donations to the TSG/Santa Anita & Del Mar GoFundMe account through a world-wide outpouring to...

Post-Fire Situation Settles at Del Mar as Training Is Held

Thoroughbreds jogged on the main racetrack at Del Mar Monday morning as life after the horrific training track fire in nearby Bonsal began to settle for horses and horsemen involved with the events at San...

Trainer Martine Bellocq Remains Hospitalized Following Injuries Suffered at San Luis Rey

Trainer Martine Bellocq continues to be treated at UCSD Medical Center in San Diego for burns she received trying to rescue her horses during the San Luis Rey Downs training center fire in Bonsal Thursday....

Santa Anita & Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Join Forces Following Fire to Provide Off-Site Stabling During San Luis Rey Downs Training Center Reconstruction

With Eight Barns at San Luis Rey Destroyed by Lilac Fire on Thursday, Training & Stabling Facilities Immediately Required for Nearly 500 Thoroughbreds Following an emergency meeting of the California horse racing industry’s Stabling and...

More Than 800 Fire-Threatened Horses Evacuated to Del Mar

Del Mar’s backstretch area is currently providing safe haven for more than 850 horses that escaped a wind-blown, fast-moving fire that ripped through the North County area of San Diego Thursday. The first group of...

Del Mar Springboards Off Breeders' Cup to its Best Fall Season

The highly successful first Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar – which has drawn rave reviews from coast to coast – got the track’s fall meeting off to a rousing start and that momentum carried through...

Miller, Prat Reign as Bing Crosby Meeting Champions

Flavien Prat Peter Miller won the training title for the third time in the four Bing Crosby Fall meetings at Del Mar and Flavien Prat secured the jockey championship as the season came to an...

Hills Add Del Mar to Their 'Places to Race' List

Jim & Susan Hill © Benoit Photo By Hank Wesch The presence of owners Jim and Susan Hill at Del Mar, a place Jim Hill concedes – “We’d never been to, never seen until this...

Single Ticket Pick Six Pays $254,441 Thanks to a Disqualification

A lone ticket holder was – in racetrack parlance – “kissed in” to a Pick Six score of $254,441 Sunday afternoon at Del Mar when Lord Admiral, who had finished second in the 9th and...

Three Special Guys Have Built - And Left - Their Marks on Del Mar

(Left to right): Gerald (Corky) Riner, Robert Sanchez, David Martinez © Benoit Photo By Mac McBride Forty-six years ago Del Mar started a Pick 3 that paid dividends over and over again. This year the...