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Varied works by young composers get a sympathetic reading. Classical review by Bernard Hughes

Ron Flatter advises to pay close attention to key races over the next three weekends if you want to be prepared to handicap the season-ending horse racing championships.

United, Madone Target Del Mar Handicap, Oaks For Next Starts Sponsored by: Madone and jockey Juan Hernandez win the Senorita Stakes. United and Madone came out of their respective Grade 2 wins in the $250,000 Eddie Read and $200,000 San Clemente Stakes at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif., on Saturday in fine fettle, their trainers reported Sunday morning. And with those lucrative first steps taken, the connections are eyeing even bigger things on August 21 as part of the five-stakes mega card for TVG Pacific Classic Day. For United, it's the $300,000 Grade 2 Del Mar Hand...

Sponsored by: Madone and Juan Hernandez edge Going Global in the San Clemente Kaleem Shah's Madone saved ground early, then launched a strong outside bid from the three-eighths pole home to prove a half length best Saturday in the $202,500 San Clemente Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif. The winner, a daughter of the Australian sire Vancouver though bred in Kentucky, covered a mile on turf in the Grade 2 feature in 1:35.28 and got the measure of race favorite Going Global, the 2-5 choice running in the silks of Dubb, Gevertz or Nentwig a...

Multiple Grade I winner Gamine heads a field of eight in the $200,000-guaranteed Great Lady M Stakes Monday at Los Alamitos. A Grade II, the Great Lady M is for fillies & mares (3-year-olds) and up at 6 ½ furlongs. It is the eighth of nine races on closing day of the Summer Thoroughbred Festival. Scheduled post time for the main event is 4:28 p.m. Trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert for Michael Lund Petersen, Gamine has won seven of eight and earned $1,286,500. A 4-year-old Into Mischief filly out of the Kafwain mare Peggy Jane, Gamine has four Grade I successes in three different states o...