Horse Racing News by Steve Andersen

Euroears was loose on the lead. Smiling Tiger had a poor start. That was the difference between first and second in Sunday's $250,000 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar.

Goldikova won Sunday's Group 1 Prix Rothschild for a record fourth consecutive year at Deauville, France, holding off Sahpresa by a short neck.

After a third in his 2011 debut in an allowance race for sprinters at Hollywood Park in June, Tres Borrachos started as an outsider in Saturday's $200,000 San Diego Handicap, and won his first graded stakes since the Grade 2 Swaps Stakes in 2008.

Acclamation is more than just a turf marathoner.

Grade 1 races have not been kind to Caracoratado this year.

Jockey Patrick Valenzuela first came to Del Mar as a fresh-faced, 16-year-old apprentice, and though both he and Del Mar have matured in the three decades since, both retained their youthful enthusiasm on opening day on Wednesday.

The graded stakes winners Aggie Engineer and Victor's Cry will pass Saturday's Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar in favor of upcoming stakes at this meeting.

For the third consecutive year, the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes at Del Mar will have one division on Wednesday's opening day of the 37-day meeting.

Majestic City is unbeaten in three starts and is proving to be much more than a 2-year-old speedball.

It may not be the worst four-letter word used to describe a racehorse, but trainer A.C. Avila and jockey Chantal Sutherland said the same thing about Imponente Purse in separate conversations after Sunday's $100,000 Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park.