Steve Andersen

Charlie’s to Blame led throughout the $150,000 Kitten’s Joy Stakes at Gulfstream Park in February 2025. The same tactics will be employed when the 4-year-old colt starts in a tough allowance race at 1 1/16 miles on turf at Del Mar on Friday.

D’Angelo is back at Del Mar this summer with a small stable for the track’s current meeting, which began on Friday.

Stronghold, the multiple stakes winner who is unbeaten in two starts this year, is on schedule for his first appearance in a Grade 1 stakes in 18 months in the $400,000 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar on July 25.

Her trainer describes her as quick. When the trainer is Bob Baffert and the filly is Holmby, who starts in Saturday’s fourth race at Del Mar, the compliment is worth noting.

Proletariat, the colt who led throughout Friday’s $153,000 Oceanside Handicap for 3-year-olds on turf at Del Mar, has changed considerably since last fall.

Saturday’s $2 pick six at Del Mar begins with a carryover of $80,363 from Friday’s opening day of the summer meeting.

After a closing fourth in a maiden race at Santa Anita in March, jockey Armando Ayuso thought Somerset Way would be a filly to follow. Ayuso’s faith was confirmed when Somerset Way closed to win the Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap in a 35-1 upset.

Ag Bullet, the seven-time stakes winner who was second in the Grade 1 Jaipur Stakes at Saratoga on June 6 in her first start of the year, will not race before the Grade 1 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Sprint at Kentucky Downs on Aug. 29.

Journalism, the winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar, is expected to have two or three more starts before he is retired to stud in Kentucky.

The expected tactics of Sunday’s $101,500 Wickerr Stakes at Del Mar changed remarkably when expected pacesetter Captain Choochies stumbled at the start. Race favorite King of Gosford inherited the lead and kept it throughout the one-mile turf race, winning the sixth stakes of his accomplished career.