My Girl Red © Benoit Photo Erich Brehm’s homebred filly My Girl Red showed speed from the start and won the 52nd edition of the Grade II Sorrento Stakes for juvenile fillies by four and...

Storm the Court Eight 3-year-olds will test their mettle over a mile and one-sixteenth Sunday on the Del Mar greensward in the 80th edition of the La Jolla Handicap. The Grade III stakes carries a...

Beau Recall © Benoit Photo YELLOW RIBBON IS, AND ISN’T, A SLAM DUNK FOR BEAU RECALL Nick Cosato, a former jockey agent who is now head of the Slam Dunk Racing partnership organization, was introduced...

Beau Recall (inside) © Benoit Photo Slam Dunk Racing or Medallion Racing’s Beau Recall, who was up by a whisker to win last year’s Yellow Ribbon Handicap, has come back to Del Mar to try...

Herd Immunity © Benoit Photo When Wesley Ward ships one in – standby. Mr. Ward does not come to play, be it anywhere in the U.S., or Europe, too. The man fires bullets from coast...

September Secret © Benoit Photo In what appears to be a wide-open edition of the Grade II, $150,000 Sorrento Stakes at Del Mar, seven fillies will face starter Jay Slender Friday for a six-furlong tussle...

Fighting Mad © Benoit Photo Gary and Mary West’s homebred filly Fighting Mad bolted out of the gate to the lead Sunday in the $250,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes and then never looked back, outrunning...

Thousand Words © Benoit Photo THOUSAND WORDS A BIG SURPRISE TO MOST; TO BAFFERT, NOT SO MUCH Approaching the track to greet his returning Shared Belief Stakes winner, Thousand Words, Bob Baffert couldn’t help but...

Positivity (outside) runs by Good With People © Benoit Photo Graduation Stakes DRAYDEN VAN DYKE (Positivity, winner) – “Finally got one to go my way. I was aware of that horse behind me coming away...

Collusion Illusion © Benoit Photo Rider Flavien Prat took advantage of a serious speed battle up front, dove for the rail in the stretch and pulled off a nose victory with the 3-year-old Collusion Illusion...