How to bet the Torrey Pines Stakes

A well-matched cast of seven will run 1 1/16 miles on the Del Mar dirt in Sunday’s $150,000 Torrey Pines (G3). The top-two finishers of the Fleet Treat S. for California-bred runners on the course on July 24 are back to face open company in the affair, and I think that the duo could finish first and second once again. 

Torrey Pines Wagers

• $10 win and place #2 She’s No Quant ($20)
• $2 trifecta 2,5 with 2,3,5 with 2,3,5,7 ($16)
• 50-cent superfecta box 2,3,5,7 ($12)

Redam Racing’s homebred #2 She’s No Quant made her dirt debut in the aforementioned Fleet Treat and ran a lifetime-best Brisnet Speed rating en route to earning her first stakes win for trainer Eddie Freeman. The gray daughter of Pavel had been consistently good on the grass prior to her latest but seemed to bring her game to a new level when running down a clear one in the lane. 

She’s No Quant came home fast at seven-eighths most recently, which hints that the move to one-mile will be well within her wheelhouse, and she landed in a spot where the early tempo should be honest at the very least. The sophomore has posted a pair of maintenance morning drills on the course to prepare for her graded bow and will be moving best of all in the lane beneath Antonio Fresu. 

John Sadler’s multiple stakes-winning #5 Mohaven led for the majority of the Fleet Treat before falling a length shy under the wire, but the Yaupon filly was more than nine lengths clear of her nearest foe. The $200,000 yearling purchase has never been worse than second from five career runs on the local oval, and the lass also aired in her lone two-turn test to date, as well. She is very quick from the gate and will likely be the one to catch at the top of the lane once again with Emisael Jaramillo retaining the mount. 

It’s impossible to ignore trainer Bob Baffert at this meeting, and he will saddle the unbeaten #3 Rabeeba in the affair. By Curlin, the $750,000 yearling buy handled the surface well last time when leading throughout in an allowance win and appears to have a bright future. The Kentucky-bred does take a class rise in a much better field on Sunday, and I don’t believe that she will be up front in the early going, so she will have to show a new dimension in passing runners in this endeavor. Go-to pilot Juan Hernandez will take the reins. 

#7 Wolf Hill seemingly can’t cross the wire in front, but the Leonard Powell pupil has been second in seven of 10 lifetime runs, led by a runner-up result in the Summertime Oaks (G3) at Santa Anita in June. The Upstart homebred had a nice prep for this off the short break most recently, and while I don’t expect her to break her maiden on Sunday, I do expect her to challenge for another placing under Joel Rosario.