OUT OF THE GATE
DEL MAR LEADERS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS
Flavien Prat 13 Abel Cedillo 8 Juan Hernandez 6 Umberto Rispoli 6 Two tied 5
TRAINERS / WINS
Peter Miller 5 Five tied 3
WEEKEND STAKES DEL MAR Today
• $175,000 Real Good Deal Stakes, 3-year-olds bred in CA, 7furlongs
Saturday
• $300,000Grade I Bing Crosby Stakes, 3-year-olds and up, 6 furlongs
Sunday
• $300,000 Grade I Clement L. Hirsch Stakes, fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, 1 / miles
DOWN THE STRETCH
• Trainer Kristin Mulhall might be doing something different today if not for a rusty nail going into her arm and derailing her career as a show jumper. She was maybe four years away from the Olympics if she hadn’t gotten injured. “I had gotten some good horses and that was my goal, to do some of the qualifiers and just keep building up,” she said. The arm injury sidelined her for about six months and the rest is history. She wound up selling all her valuable show horses and took up training. “If I hadn’t gotten hurt, I never would have left the show horse world,” Mulhall said.
• The Craig Lewis-trained Brickyard Ride, bred in California, will take on six Kentucky breds and two Florida breds in Saturday’s $300,000 Grade I Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar. Brickyard Ride, who will be ridden by Juan Hernandez, goes into the 6-furlong sprint off a victory in the $100,000Thor’s Echo Stakes at Santa Anita last month. Lewis also will saddle the only Cal-bred in Sunday’s $300,000 Grade I Clement L. Hirsch Stakes when he sends out Warren’s Showtime in the seven-horse field. Del Mar publicity official Hank Wesch asked Lewis if he feels the weight of the Calbred world on his shoulders. “I’ve carried weight before, I can deal with it,” he said.
• According to Wesch, the Hot Rod Charlie camp has decided to pass on the $750,000Grade I Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 21 and wait for the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 25at Parx Racing. The Louisiana Derby winner won the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on July 17 but was disqualified for interference in the stretch and placed last. Mandoulin, who could eventually be named the winner of the Kentucky Derby if Medina Spirit is disqualifed because of a drug violation, was declared the winner.
— Art Wilson