SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
RACING NEWS
THURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

CURRENT RACE MEET

MIDSHIPMAN WINS DEL MAR FUTURITY

Stonerside Stable's Midshipman and jockey Tyler Baze forged to the front in the final stride to edge out Coronet of a Baron and win the featured Grade I $250,000 Del Mar Futurity for two-year-olds Wednesday, closing day of the 43-day Del Mar summer season.

Closing gamely in the middle of the track, Midshipman gave trainer Bob Baffert his first success in the seven-furlong Futurity since 2002 when Icecoldbeeratreds supplied the conditioner with his seventh consecutive success in the race.