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Holmby Listed as 4-5 Favorite for Saturday’s Desi Arnaz Stakes at Del Mar

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2 days ago

November 13, 2026

Holmby, a chestnut filly in a black blinker hood, races at Del Mar with her jockey in orange and blue silks aboard.

Talia Racing’s Holmby, already a stakes winner with $226,000 banked, heads a short field of five 2-year-old fillies Saturday at Del Mar as the 4/5 favorite in the $100,000 Desi Arnaz Stakes for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert.

By Talia Racing’s Holmby, a stakes winner who has already put $226,000 in the bank, is listed as the 4/5 favorite Saturday in Del Mar’s Desi Arnaz Stakes, a seven-panel spin for 2-year-old fillies.

The chestnut daughter of juvenile champion Corniche drew the rail in a short field of five and will be handled by top rider Juan Hernandez in the $100,000 feature. The man who’ll put the saddle on her is the Hall of Fame conditioner Bob Baffert, who has won the Arnaz four times previously.

The race will be the third on a nine-race card at the seaside oval with an approximate post time of 1:30 p.m. Arnaz, a bandleader and actor, is best remembered as the husband of superstar Lucille Ball, though he had quite a history in the racing game, too. After divorcing Ball, he bought a home on the beach in Del Mar and took up breeding and racing horses with some measure of success.

Chief threat to Holmby is MyRacehorse or Spartan Equine Racing’s Sea’s No Joke, who also races out of the Baffert barn. The daughter of Practical Joe has won one of her two starts against straight maidens and makes her stakes debut in the dash.

The other runners in the lineup are Sabby Racing’s Mo Chuisle, Calumet Farm’s Vino Vino Vino and Ruis Racing’s Grammy’s Gal.

Saturday will be Day 5 of 13 in the Bing Crosby Season. First post as always will be 12:30 p.m.

Arctic Wolf Goes Wire to Wire to Win the $175,000 Awad Stakes at Belmont Park

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17 hours ago

November 14, 2026

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Arctic Wolf, number 9 with Kendrick Carmouche aboard in black silks with pink polka dots, winning the Awad Stakes at Belmont Park.

Five starts at five different tracks, and Arctic Wolf keeps finding the winner’s circle. The grey son of Frosted took the field gate to wire Saturday at Belmont Park, winning the $175,000 Awad Stakes by three lengths under Kendrick Carmouche.

The Awad, run as the eighth race, was scheduled for the Widener turf course and moved to the new Tapeta track, where Arctic Wolf set fractions of :22.83, :46.00 and :57.28 before finishing six furlongs in 1:08.99. He paid $13.90 to win and earned $96,250 for owners MHM Stables LLC, Chad Calvert and John F. Goldthorpe.

Metallican finished second, a length and three quarters ahead of Riyadh Way in third. Titan Ready was fourth and More Champagne fifth.

Trained by Jack Sisterson, Arctic Wolf was bred in Kentucky by Flying B Ranch Thoroughbreds and is by Frosted out of the mare Firewolves. Carmouche said after the race that Sisterson’s instructions were simple: take the lead and do not hold back.

The Awad was Arctic Wolf’s second stakes win of the fall. He won the Speakeasy Stakes at Santa Anita on October 3 by two and a quarter lengths, and his five career starts have now come at five different tracks.