Vertical Threat © Benoit Photo Five horses are scheduled to battle Saturday in the first running of the Smiling Tiger Stakes, but most of the focus in the six-panel dash for 3-year-olds will be on...

Stealthediamonds © Benoit Photo In the racing vernacular, a “daisycutter” is a grass horse, one whose high action makes him or her especially adept on the greensward. Thus the name of Friday’s overnight stakes at...

Big Sweep © Benoit Photo Only five California-bred runners answered the call for Friday’s $125,000 Fleet Treat Stakes, but they’re a closely matched bunch of 3-year-old fillies and it figures to be an interesting tiff...

Cordiality © Benoit Photo The quick mare Cordiality got her course and got her way up front and took them wire-to-wire in the 65th running of the Osunitas Stakes on the Del Mar lawn Sunday...

Abel Cedillo © Del Mar Thoroughbred Club SIX RIVALS ENLISTED TO FACE MAXIMUM SECURITY IN SAN DIEGO A half dozen well-tested handicap division horses were entered to take on Maximum Security as entries closed and...

Bob and Jackie © Benoit Photo Zayat Stable’s homebred Bob and Jackie, making the first start of his 4-year-old season, was up in time to tally be a neck Saturday in Del Mar’s feature Wickerr...

Maximum Security © Zoe Metz Photography MAXIMUM SECURITY WORKS FOR SAN DIEGO HANDICAP; RIDER NEEDED In his final work before next Saturday’s $150,000 Grade II San Diego Handicap, Eclipse Award winner and presumptive race favorite...

Super Patriot © Benoit Photo Little Red Feather Racing and partners’ Super Patriot, a 5-year-old mare coming off a smart stakes tally at a mile on the grass at Santa Anita last month, wheels back...

Bolo © Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Nine veteran turf horses will hook-up Saturday in the Wickerr Stakes, a competitive overnighter that will be run for the 31st time and carry a $65,000 purse. Likely to...

BAFFERT HAPPY WITH CHANGE OF SCENERY The Del Mar racing season, which starts Friday, represents “a breath of fresh air,” for Southern California Thoroughbred racing in 2020 in the opinion of Hall of Fame trainer...