Del Mar’s Bing Crosby Season, which offers the premier late fall racing in America, will present the richest stakes schedule in its nine-year history featuring 13 major stakes races – nine of them Graded –...

Racing Community Rallies to Support Retired Racehorses and Aftercare Programs

Terry Lovingier © Benoit Photo By Jim Charvat When you love a sport as much as Terry Lovingier loves horse racing, the time and effort you put into it is irrelevant. That is why when...

Ron McAnally and Laffit Pincay, Jr. at Del Mar in 1998. Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally, the dean of California conditioners and a man who is celebrating the unprecedented feat of spending his 74th...

The first half of Del Mar’s 83rd summer season has been highlighted by world-class safe racing, full fields and sizeable increases in wagering and on-track attendance. Fueled by record California purses of over $800,000 per...

Juan J. Hernandez © Benoit Photo By Jim Charvat There was a collective sigh of relief in the Santa Anita and Del Mar jockey colonies last spring when Flavien Prat moved his tack back east....

Del Mar will be off and running Friday, August 19 a bit earlier at 3 p.m. instead of the usual 4 p.m. start time. The Friday switch to 3 p.m. will be the first of...

Online Fundraiser Aims to Raise $150,000 for Retired Racehorses

The Del Mar “Amigos:” (L to R) Ramon Vazquez, Hector Berrios, Florent Geroux © Benoit Photo By Gene Williams This racing season the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club has taken a page from a Hollywood script...

“The Art of Racing,” a new twist on an old Del Mar theme, will come full blown this Saturday at the track around its large Plaza d’Mexico fountain starting at 12 noon and going forward...