2023 Sorrento Stakes Preview & FREE Picks | Benedetta, Dua Headline Del Mar Debutante Prep

The Magic Mike Show guys preview the 2023 Sorrento Stakes (G3) from Del Mar, then give their top picks & long shots. Impressive debut winners Benedetta & Dua headline a field of 7 juvenile fillies entered in the local prep for the Del Mar Debutante (G1).

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The press release:

A pair of graded black type events – the Grade II Yellow Ribbon Handicap and the Grade III Sorrento Stakes – will be on tap Saturday at Del Mar as the 84th summer in Del Mar’s racing history rolls right along.

In the Sorrento, which has drawn eight young lassies, there may be a nice matchup between Kaleem Shah’s Benedetta and Zendan Racing Stables’ Dua in a race within the race. Both were winners of their only starts – the former at Los Alamitos on July 8 and the latter at Del Mar on July 22.

Trainer Simon Callaghan has given the call on Benedetta to veteran Victor Espinoza, while conditioner Bob Baffert has named leading rider Juan Hernandez on Dua.

Here’s the complete field listed in post position order with riders and morning line odds:

1. Barber or Peli’s Feisty Mitole (Vazquez, 8-1)
2. Dan Eplin’s Dreamfrye (Berrios, 3-1)
3. Dua (5/2)
4. Adams, Connors, or Rasmussen, et al’s Vinos Angel (Bravo, 4-1)
5. Albert, Dunn or Hanson, et al’s Kythira (Drayden Van Dyke, 20-1)
6. Gary Folgner’s Motet (Abdul Alsagoor, 30-1)
7. R3 Racing’s Ur in Trouble (Fresu, 6-1)
8. Benedetta (2-1)