Om, © Benoit Photo OM TAKES ON INVADING FORCE IN QUEST OF ‘TURF TRIPLE’ A capacity complement of 13 rivals, five of them shippers from the East, stands between 3-year-old colt Om and a “Derby...

The Pizza Man, © Benoit Photo Well-traveled The Pizza Man, the even-money favorite piloted by Hall of Famer Mike Smith, circled his opposition on the stretch turn with an impressive display of acceleration and cruised...

Om, © Benoit Photo The Grade I $350,000 Hollywood Derby, the race which propelled California Chrome to 2014 Horse of the Year laurels, tops a stakes triple-header Saturday on the next-to-last afternoon of the fall...

Richard Mandella, © Zoe Metz Photography MANDELLA AIMS TO BE FACTOR IN CLOSING WEEK STAKES Thanksgiving, for Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella and most other racetrack people, is not only a day to give...

Avanzare © Benoit Photo Nine seasoned and talented older Thoroughbreds, several of whom have won major stakes during their careers, will tangle Friday in the Grade II $250,000 Seabiscuit Handicap at a mile and one-sixteenth...

Midwest Thoroughbreds, Inc.’s The Pizza Man, a winner of 15 of 25 lifetime starts, including the Arlington Million last summer, heads a full field of 14 Thoroughbreds in the Grade II $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup,...

Solid Wager © Benoit Photo Solid Wager, a 9-1 outsider in the betting, rallied from last place turning into the stretch under powerful urging from jockey Joe Talamo to win the featured $100,000 Cary Grant...

Doug O'Neill © Zoe Metz Photography Trainer Doug O’Neill recorded the 2,000th victory of his career when Formally Wild won the second race Sunday at Del Mar under Tyler Baze. It was the 12th win...

STAKES BONANZA HIGHLIGHTS CLOSING/HOLIDAY WEEK Racing secretary David Jerkens looked upon the abundant quality and quality that appears to be assembling for close of the Bing Crosby Season starting on Thanksgiving Day with some satisfaction...

Rusty Slipper © Benoit Photo Eastern invader Rusty Slipper, piloted by England’s champion jockey of 2015, Silvestre de Sousa, in his Del Mar Debut, accelerated powerfully in the stretch to win the Grade III $100,000...