Opening Day at Del Mar begins on Friday, July 22 and TVG, America's horse racing network, will be live on-site for each day of the prestigious meet with enhanced coverage, features and expert analysis. The weekend broadcast will also include the $1 million TVG.com Haskell Invitational on Saturday from Monmouth Park featuring a showdown between Grade 1 winner Taiba and the undefeated Jack Christopher.
TVG will have a full roster of talent on-site at Del Mar for opening weekend including Todd Schrupp, Simon Bray, Christina Blacker, Dave Weaver and Kurt Hoover with exclusive interviews, insights and handicapping selections. Andie Biancone will be on horseback throughout the day reporting from on the track. TVG's coverage of the Del Mar meet is presented by Runhappy.
Fans will enjoy enhanced coverage which includes the utilization of drone technology as well as a behind-the-scenes look through a Jockey Cam utilized every day of the meet.
Del Mar has a ten-race card lined up for Opening Day and the featured race is the $100,000 Runhappy Oceanside Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds, the one-mile contest will be contested on the turf and has drawn a full field of fourteen sophomores.
Mackinnon, third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) last November, will break from the rail under jockey Juan Hernandez for trainer Doug O'Neill.
The coverage of Del Mar's meet will run through Labor Day and will include the TVG Pacific Classic (G1) on September 3. The TVG Pacific Classic is a Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” Challenge races which will earn the winner an automatic berth into the Breeders' Cup which will be held at Keeneland on November 4-5. The Pacific Classic is one of six Breeders' Cup Challenge races to be held at Del Mar alongside the Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) on July 30, the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G2) on August 6, the Pat O'Brien Handicap (G2) on August 27, the Del Mar Handicap (G2) on September 3 and the Green Flash Handicap (G3) on September 4.
There will be a Money Back Special promotion on select races throughout the Del Mar Meet as well as a $2,000 Hit it or Split It promotion every Thursday and Friday of the season including Opening Day.
There will be on-site coverage throughout the weekend at Monmouth Park leading up to the $1 million TVG.com Haskell Invitational on Saturday, July 23. TVG's Scott Hazelton, Larry Collmus, Matt Carothers, Caleb Keller and Joaquin Jaime will be reporting live from New Jersey with insights, interviews and analysis leading up to the marquee race for 3-year-olds.
The TVG.com Haskell (G1) is the anchor of Monmouth's fourteen-race card which includes a total of six stakes races. Taiba, last seen finishing twelfth in the Kentucky Derby (G1), has been installed as the morning line favorite in the eight-horse field at odds of 7-5 for trainer Bob Baffert. Baffert has saddled nine Haskell winners, most recently with Authentic in 2020. Taiba's rivals include Jack Christopher, undefeated from four starts for trainer Chad Brown. The dual Grade 1 winner was last seen winning the Woody Stephens Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park.
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