Pacific Classic Draw Set, with Plenty of Star Power Ready to Run Saturday at Del Mar

Pacific Classic draw set, with plenty of star power ready to run Saturday at Del Mar

The Pacific Classic is the richest race of every summer at Del Mar — the richest all year in California, in fact, outside of when the Breeders’ Cup is held in the state. Some years, the field for the 1¼-mile race lives up to its $1 million purse. In 2016, for example, California Chrome, the Horse of the Year two years prior when he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, defeated the mare Beholder, who had romped to victory in the 2015 Classic en …

Journalism Gets Post Six for Pacific Classic, Nysos Slightly Favored in Post Four

With eight entered for the 35th renewal of Saturday's GI Pacific Classic at Del Mar, a stellar matchup is anticipated with GI Preakness Stakes and GI Haskell Stakes winner Journalism (Curlin) set to take on his elders for the first time. Among those he'll face are 'TDN Rising Star' Nysos (Nyquist), who exited a win in the July 26 GII San Diego Handicap with a five-for-six record, and 'TDN Rising Star' Fierceness (City of Light), the 2023 Eclipse…

Pacific Classic: Field, odds for $1 million race with Nysos 8-5

Even though he is lightly raced and lost in his only Grade 1 try, Bob Baffert-trained Nysos was made the 8-5 favorite against Journalism, Fierceness and five other horses racing Saturday in the 35th running of the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic on Saturday at Del Mar. Nysos, a 4-year-old Nyquist colt owned by Baoma Corp, drew post 4. Only a neck loss to Mindframe in the Churchill Downs (G1) on Kentucky Derby day has blemished Nysos’s six-ra…

2025 Pacific Classic Cheat Sheet

If it’s the final weekend in August, it’s time to get ready for what is year-in, year-out one of the highlights of the North American racing calendar: Del Mar’s signature event, the Pacific Classic Stakes. Read More...