This and that from Del Mar

Some leftover notes from the Del Mar meet while waiting for the start of the Bing Crosby Stakes:

* Trainer Eric Guillot was obviously quite pleased with Mi Sueno's resounding victory in Friday's Sorrento Stakes, setting the 2-year-old filly up for a start in the Grade 1 Darley Dubutante on Sept. 5. Mi Sueno beat runner-up Necessary Evil, the Hollywood Juvenile winner against the boys, by 6 1/2 lengths. "There's no reason for me to be scared if I get the same cast back and we're going farther, which is what my filly wants," Guillot said of the Debutante, which was won last year by Stardom Bound, who went on to win an Eclipse Award as top juvenile filly.

* Joel Rosario opened up some distance on runner-up Tyler Baze in the jockey race with a riding double Friday, but Baze won three of the first four races Saturday while Rosario was blanking, leaving the two tied atop the standings with 19 victories apiece. Victor Espinoza is running a strong third with 13 wins.

* Awesome Gem, a potential starter in the $1 million Pacific Classic on Sept. 6 who is trained by Craig Dollase, is scheduled to ship north for the Longacres Mile next Saturday at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash.

* Trainer Doug O'Neill, who'll try to upset the unbeaten Zenyatta with Champagne Eyes in Sunday's $300,000 Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes, summed up his chances this way: "We'll have a good chance if Zenyatta has a headache."

* Favorites got off to a terrible start at the meet, but they've rebounded since. Heading into Saturday's 10-race card, favorites had won 33 of 119 races (27.73 percent), including 25 of 92 on Polytrack (27.17 percent). Favorites normally win at about a 32-percent clip. Turf favorites were winning at a 29.63 percent rate (8 of 27) and odds-on favorites were 9 of 19 (47.3 percent).