Oakhurst is coming into the race off of a victory in a second-level allowance race on opening weekend at Del Mar. “She actually laid close the other day going a mile and a sixteenth, so a mile and an eighth she’ll be right up there with hopefully a couple of horses in front of her to take a run at.”Ĭo-champion trainer last year and co-leading trainer going into the final week of this year’s Del Mar summer meet, Phil D’Amato, brings two contenders to the six-horse field. “The first race off of her freshening has really got her on the muscle,” trainer Carla Gaines says. It was the second Grade II win of the year for the daughter of Vronsky. Harris Farms’ Closing Remarks will be the horse to beat off of her last out victory in the G2 Yellow Ribbon at Del Mar last month. Mabee, a mile and an eighth affair on the Jimmy Durante Turf Course. The last of the stakes races for older horses, in this case fillies and mares 3-year-olds and up, will be run Saturday afternoon. Here’s the field from the rail with the jockeys and morning odds: Julias Dream (Ricky Gonzalez, 5-1) Next Right Thing (Emily Ellingwood, 30-1) Pretty Layla (Drayden Van Dyke, 30-1) Benedetta (Victor Espinoza, 10-1) Hope Road (Tiago Pereira, 12-1) Chatalas (Juan Hernandez, 5-1) Dreamfyre (Hector Berrios, 4-1) Pushiness (Umberto Rispoli, 8-1) Tamara (Mike Smith, 7/2) Where’s My Ring (Joe Bravo, 15-1) Motet (Abdul Alsagoor, 50-1) Gate to Paradise (Kent Desormeaux, 20-1) Laurent (Edwin Maldonado, 6-1), and Cheeky Gal (Antonio Fresu, 30-1).ĬLOSING REMARKS EYES BACK-TO-BACK GRADE II WINS AT DEL MAR We’ll see how she bounces out of there and see where she puts herself.” “She’s stretching out in trip from 5 ½ to seven eighths. “Obviously it’s a big step up in class but she’s been very good right from the start,” McCarthy notes. She broke her maiden by six lengths at Santa Anita in June. The daughter of Kantharos hails from the Michael McCarthy barn. Pushiness beat a good group of Cal-breds that day, her second wire-to-wire score in as many career starts. The daughter of City of Light was 7 ½ lengths better than the rest of the field of seven that ran in the Sorrento.Ī horse that might keep Dreamfyre company on the front end is the winner of the $125,000 CTBA Stakes at Del Mar last month. She’ll have to contend with Benedetta again. “She’s definitely got speed,” Jauregui says, “and she’s very wicked on the lead but I also believe she can rate. Jauregui doesn’t believe they have to send her right out of the gate for her to run her best race. The two races she ran, she ran really well. “Whenever I ask her to do something, she does it really nice. She took down the Everitt Nevin at Pleasanton in her debut in July. It was her second victory in as many career starts and her second stakes win. She’ll have to bring her ‘A’ game to beat this group, which consists of the top two finishers in the G3 Sorrento earlier in the meet.ĭreamfyre took the lead that day and never looked back, winning by 3 ½ lengths over race favorite Benedetta. So far just nothing but good things from her.” “She trains very forward, very smart,” Richard Mandella points out. The daughter of Beholder has done nothing but impress her trainer. It was an eye-catching performance, not only for the impressive way in which she came from off the pace to win the race but also her strikingly resemblance to her mother. Tamara burst on the scene last month with a maiden win at Del Mar. Fourteen will go postward led by the daughter of a Hall of Famer. Saturday we’ll see the crop of 2-year old fillies who have weathered the scrutiny and passed the tests of the earlier weeks, earning a spot in the 73 rd running of the G1 FanDuel Racing Del Mar Debutante. Those plans usually involve running on closing weekend of the Del Mar summer meet in one of the two big juvenile races, either the G1 Debutante or the G1 Futurity. Others shine in their maiden races, prompting a change in plans or to simply stay the course mapped out before they came here. Some make their debut at the seaside oval and reveal that they need more work or more seasoning. TAMARA LEADS TALENTED GROUP OF FILLIES IN G1 DEL MAR DEBUTANTEĮvery year barns come to Del Mar loaded with fresh 2-year-olds.
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