Stable Notes December 4, 2022

Pizza Bianca is back at Del Mar to compete in the G1 Matriarch on Sunday. She is coming off of a fourth-place finish in G2 Sands Point at the Belmont at Aqueduct meet last month. It was the filly's first race in four months and first since arriving back from Royal Ascot where she finished eighth in a G 1 Coronation Stakes. Pizza Bianka won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last year. Bobby Flay owns and bred her. She gave his trainer Christophe Lorieul his first Breeder's Cup win after a record 40 tries.

The horses stabled at Del Mar are being shipped to Santa Anita for the winter. Phil D'Amato will work a few of his 40-horses Tuesday morning and then load them up and send them north. Chad Brown has big plans for his 2-year-old filly Liguria, who stormed home and won the G3 Jimmy Durante Saturday. Graham Motion will ship out his string of horses to Florida around 2 a.m. on Tuesday. Motion is going to talk to Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners owner Aron Wellman about his future plans with Speaking Scout.

Phil D'Amato is the trainer's champion at the Bing Crosby meet. He has brought 40 horses to the meet and they've won 17 races. Juan Hernandez and Flavien Prat are the riders' champions. They have 20 wins each. Ramon Vasquez is third. The final day of the 13-day meet is Sunday. Prats and Hernandez have rides in the G1 Matriarch. The winner will be crowned. It's the first time since the summer that the jockeys' champion has gone back-to-back with fall meet titles.

Field size at the Bing Crosby meet is up. The Turf Festival was expanded to two weeks. There were 114 races during the meet. There was 59 on the grass. A slight increase in the number of horses qualifying for the ‘Ship & Win’ program. Thirty-eight horses have qualified for “Ship and Win,” compared to 29 last year. Del Mar has a corner on turf racing. It's luring more out-of-town trainers of grass runners to the track in fall. They have a Grade I for 3-year-olds. and a G1 Matriarch for fillies and mares for black type purposes.

Del Mar Jockey and Trainer standings are as follows: Winning favorites on dirt and turf, betting odds-on favorites, and betting money favorites.