Horse Racing News by Steve Andersen

Experience prevailed in Sunday's "Battle of the Exes" at Del Mar between former fiancees Mike Smith and Chantal Sutherland.

The Grade 1 winner Zazu has been supplemented to Saturday's $300,000 Clement Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar, and may start in that race against older fillies and mares instead of being sent to Saratoga for the Alabama Stakes later this month.

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.