DEL MAR : Delahoussaye on Lykatill Hil

Eddie Delahoussaye, injured in an ugly mishap last Saturday, will return to riding Saturday and will pick up the mount on Lykatill Hil in Sunday’s Del Mar Budweiser Breeders’ Cup.

Delahoussaye suffered nicks and scratches and strained some stomach muscles when his mount, Ramblin Guy, went over the rail shortly after the start of the sixth race. The horse was destroyed.

For Sunday’s race, a $200,000 event for 3-year-olds and up at one mile, Delahoussaye benefits from the presence of Brocco. Jockey Gary Stevens had the mounts on both Lykatill Hil and Brocco, who has not run since finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby, and he will ride Brocco.

“Some races come up where riders are already committed,” said Art Sherman, Lykatill Hil’s trainer.

Fortunately for Sherman, Delahoussaye was available. Fortunately for Delahoussaye, Lykatill Hil is no slouch. He won the Windy Sands here on Aug. 19.

Other entrants in the Breeders’ Cup event will probably be Kingdom Found, Stuka, D’hallevant and Southern Wish.

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Gary Baze, the other jockey injured Saturday, went to the track Monday, hoping to ride Unfinished Symph in the Del Mar Derby. He was there, smoking his pipe and seemingly willing to go, despite three broken ribs suffered when he was thrown and kicked by his mount during the post parade.

“I was relieved when Gary came out,” said Wesley Ward, Unfinished Symph’s trainer. “I didn’t want to take any chances my horse would get hurt, and I knew Gary would protect him. This was the biggest race I’d ever run in.”

However, the track doctor overturned the ruling by Baze’s personal physician, and stewards ruled him out of the race.

“To be honest, I thought about scratching the horse,” Ward said.

Ward relented, though, and gave the mount to Martin Pedroza, who acquitted himself well as a pinch-hitter, bringing Unfinished Symph home second to Ocean Crest in a strong field of 10.

Horse Racing Notes

Bertrando, the 1993 Pacific Classic winner, is a definite starter in the Woodward Stakes in New York on Sept. 17, according to co-owner Eddie Nahem. Bertrando’s workout Wednesday morning, a mile in 1:37 4/5, was easily the fastest of three at that distance. . . . Ocean Crest, winner of the Del Mar Derby, returned Wednesday to Churchill Downs, home base for trainer Frank Brothers’ operation. . . . ESPN2 will carry the National Pick Seven Saturdays at 2 p.m. beginning this week.