You can access free DRF Formulator PPs for today’s feature race here.
Closing day at Del Mar is tomorrow (Sunday). Right now, I’m pointed at tackling the full card here and the late Pick 5 on the podcast with my boys. We will record it this afternoon and it should be available late this evening. [Links: Spotify and Apple Podcasts]
Today’s race analysis was done pre-scratches.
Del Mar Race 8 • Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1) • 2 YO Fillies • 7:30 EST Now we’re talking. A West Coast stakes race with multiple Bob Baffert entries, what fun! He’s got the morning line favorite 6 Home Cooking, a winner last time out and the lone runner with a published 6 furlong work. 5 Fast and Shiny is the other Baffert, having broken her maiden on debut last month going 5 furlongs. I’m most interested in a pair of fillies that ran in the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes last month; 1 Vegas Magic was the winner there and 4 Satin Doll completed the super. All Vegas Magic has done is win her three lifetime starts and sits THIRD CHOICE on the morning line. I think Satin Doll can compete here and could factor in the tri/super as a price play. With a decent amount of early speed signed on, I’m also interested in 8 Ice Dancing, who has been pointed at this race and is the lone closer. If it gets hot early, watch out for her steamrolling down the stretch late with Flavien Prat aboard.
Picks: 1-8-6-4