DEL MAR LEADERS<\/p>\n
(Through Sunday)<\/p>\n
Jockeys \/ Wins<\/strong><\/p>\n Juan Hernandez \/ 31<\/p>\n Antonio Fresu \/ 25<\/p>\n Hector Berrios \/ 22<\/p>\n Kazushi Kimura \/ 19<\/p>\n Umberto Rispoli \/ 16<\/p>\n Armando Ayuso \/ 13<\/p>\n Ricardo Gonzalez \/ 9<\/p>\n Trainers \/ Wins<\/strong><\/p>\n Bob Baffert \/ 16<\/p>\n Mark Glatt \/ 13<\/p>\n John Sadler \/ 11<\/p>\n Michael McCarthy \/ 11<\/p>\n Phil D\u2019Amato \/ 11<\/p>\n Peter Miller \/ 11<\/p>\n George Papaprodromou \/ 9<\/p>\n UPCOMING STAKES<\/p>\n DEL MAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0$1 million, Grade I Pacific Classic, 3-year-olds and up, 1\u00bc miles<\/p>\n \u2022 $300,000, Grade II Del Mar Handicap, 3 and up, 1\u215c miles on turf<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0$300,000, Grade II Del Mar Mile, 3 and up, 1 mile on turf<\/p>\n \u2022 $150,000, Grade III Green Flash Handicap, 3 and up, 5 furlongs on turf<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0$150,000, Grade III Torrey Pines Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile<\/p>\n Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 $300,000, Grade II Del Mar Derby, 3-year-olds, 1\u215b miles on turf<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0$125,000 Shared Belief Stakes, 3-year-olds, 1 mile<\/p>\n Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0$100,000 Tranquility Lake Stakes, fillies and mares, 3 and up, 1 mile<\/p>\n \u2022 $100,000 Generous Portion Stakes, California-bred 2-year-old fillies, 5\u00bd furlongs<\/p>\n DOWN THE STRETCH<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Streaks are on the line in stakes on the Pacific Classic undercard at Del Mar on Saturday. In the Del Mar Handicap, 7-year-old Gold Phoenix (Flavien Prat riding) tries to become the first horse to win the same Del Mar race four years in a row. In the Green Flash Handicap, 7-year-old Motorious (Antonio Fresu) seeks his third straight in the event. Both Gold Phoenix and Motorious are trained by Phil D\u2019Amato, who completed a stakes triple on Pacific Classic day in 2024 with Conclude winning the Del Mar Mile, and has King of Gosford (Prat) and Almendares (Fresu) in that race this time. But the Del Mar Mile features 4-year-old Formidable Man (Umberto Rispoli), trying to extend his perfect record on the Del Mar turf to 6 for 6.<\/p>\n \u2022 Gold Phoenix is the first horse to even try for four in a row in a Del Mar race. The four other three-peaters include Native Diver, who won the San Diego Handicap in 1963-64-65 but targeted a different Del Mar race in 1966.<\/p>\n \u2022 In action this weekend are seven of the 10 horses in the Longines Breeders\u2019 Cup Classic contender rankings. Sunday\u2019s $1 million, Grade I Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga is headed by 8-5 morning-line favorite Sierra Leone (No. 2 in the rankings), 2-1 Mindframe (3), 5-1 Highland Falls (9) and 8-1 White Abarrio (8-1). Saturday\u2019s Pacific Classic is led by 9-5 Journalism (4), 8-5 Nysos (5) and 3-1 Fierceness (7). The $7 million, Grade I Classic highlights the Breeders\u2019 Cup from Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Del Mar.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Sovereignty remains No. 1 in the Classic contenders rankings \u2013 as well as the National Thoroughbred Racing Association horse rankings \u2013 after the Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner\u2019s 10-length victory at 3-10 odds in the Travers at Saratoga last Saturday. Sovereignty\u2019s 2:00.84 clocking for 1\u00bc miles earned a 115 Beyer speed figure, highest anywhere this year.<\/p>\n \u2022 Six-year-old quarter horse Scoops Dynasty won with jockey Jacob Enriquez at 17-1 in the Grade I Go Man Go Handicap at Los Alamitos on Sunday, nosing out 7-year-old Empressum. Scoops Dynasty has won the 400-yard race in 2023 and 2025, Empressum in 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n \u2022 The death of Hidden Speed, a winless 2-year-old quarter horse who was vanned off the track with an injury after finishing fourth of seven in a race at Los Alamitos on Aug. 24, was the 20th in racing and training from musculoskeletal and other causes at Los Al, Santa Anita and Del Mar since the region\u2019s racing season began Dec. 26, according to data on the California Horse Racing Board website. That equals the number of deaths recorded in the same period in 2025 but is lower than the average number (24) of deaths in this span in the past four years.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced 2025 award winners, including Steve Andersen of the Daily Racing Form receiving the Walter Haight Award for career excellence in turf writing and Del Mar CEO Joe Harper getting the Joe Palmer Award for meritorious service to racing.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Albin Jimenez, leading jockey at Belterra Park in Cincinnati, was suspended for one year by track stewards after a passive-looking ride to finish second with an odds-on favorite in a $9,500 race Aug. 21. The winner of the race was ridden by Summer Pauly, with whom Jimenez has a child, reports said.<\/p>\n \u2014 Kevin Modesti<\/p>\n Originally Published: August 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEL MAR LEADERS (Through Sunday) Jockeys \/ Wins Juan Hernandez \/ 31 Antonio Fresu \/ 25 Hector Berrios…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,23125,1589,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-183373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-horse-racing","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115109096517962701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}