Solid Wager, Edwards Going Left rematch in Del Mar's Cary Grant

Nine California-bred Thoroughbreds with a preference for sprinting, including the defending champion, Edwards Going Left, will match quickness Sunday in the $100,000 Cary Grant Stakes at seven furlongs over Del Mar’s main track.

Regular rider Tyler Baze has the call from trainer John Sadler aboard Edwards Going Left, who was a game half-length winner of the Cary Grant last fall over Solid Wager, one of eight rivals in Sunday’s renewal of the contest. Drayden Van Dyke will pilot Solid Wager, a two-time winner before his runner-up a year ago.

It will be the 47th start for the Peter Miller-trained Solid Wager in a career which has produced nine victories and earnings of more than $680,000 for owners Gary and Cecil Barber.

“He’s doing well and he loves the seven-eighths distance and he’s good here at Del Mar,” Miller said. “He fires every time, tries hard and even though he doesn’t win that often he’s been a great horse for us.”

The field from the rail: Tough But Nice (Geovanni Franco, 12-1), Touching Rainbows (Flavien Prat, 5-2), Edwards Going Left (Tyler Baze, 2-1), Solid Wager (Drayden Van Dyke, 4-1), Brandothebartender (Joe Talamo, 20-1), Minoso (Gary Stevens, 30-1), Shades of Victory (Martin Pedroza, 12-1), Ann Arbor Eddie (Mario Gutierrez, 5-1) and Grecian Fire (Rafael Bejarano, 10-1).

Likely to attract support is Touching Rainbows, a good third behind Ransom the Moon and Roy H (Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner) in last summer’s Grade I Bing Crosby. Subsequently, he was third in the Green Flash and ninth in the Eddie D., both races on grass.

Tough But Nice and Brandothebartender come into the Carry Grant off victories in their last starts.

First race post time Sunday is 12:30 p.m. PT with nine races on the program.