2025 Del Mar Debutante odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets, top picks for Saturday's race

Trainer Bob Baffert can add to his record number of wins in the Del Mar Debutante when he sends out the top three fillies in the 2025 Del Mar Debutante on Saturday at Del Mar just north of San Diego. The 72-year-old Baffert has won the race a record 10 times but hasn't won it since 2021. On Saturday he goes for No. 11 with Explora, Himika and Bottle of Rouge. Explora has been installed as the 8-5 morning-line favorite in the 2025 Del Mar Debutante odds. Himika (2-1) and Bottle of Rouge (5-1) are the second and third choices, respectively. Grandma Mary (8-1), Bourbon and Ginger (8-1), La Wally (10-1) and Fourlynnes (20-1) round out the seven Del Mar Debutante horses. Post time for the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante 2025 is 7:08 p.m. ET.

With several talented horses entering the starting gate on Saturday, you NEED to see what West Coast-based racing reporter and insider Michelle Yu, who will be at Del Mar for the race, has to say before making any 2025 Del Mar Debutante picks.

Few people in racing are as well-connected as Yu. An on-air host and reporter who has provided racing analysis for TVG, HRTV and the Breeders' Cup, Yu has spent a lifetime in racing. Prior to her television career, she worked for trainers Steve Asmussen and Ron Moquett. She also is married to Santa Anita-based trainer Ryan Hanson.

Yu also has tremendous handicapping chops. She started off 2025 by correctly going all-in on Citizen Bull to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes, and she also predicted Forever Young's win in the Saudi Cup, Journalism's win in the San Felipe Stakes, Sandman's win in the Arkansas Derby and Mindframe's win in the Churchill Downs Stakes. She also hit the exacta in the Kentucky Derby.

As just last week she hit the Fierceness-Journalism exacta in the Pacific Classic.

For the 2025 Del Mar Debutante, Yu has made her picks and constructed her bets. One surprise: Her top pick is not Explora even though the filly is the 8-5 favorite. "She is a possibility to be the lone speed, which is always dangerous, but value might lie elsewhere," Yu told SportsLine.

Instead Yu's top pick is a filly who "should be happy with more ground." Yu also is high on a longshot who has "lots more." She is including these horses in her 2025 Del Mar Debutante bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see her picks before locking in any of your own.

So which horse wins the 2025 Del Mar Debutante? What longshot is a must-back? And how has Yu constructed her wagers? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Michelle Yu's 2025 Del Mar Debutante picks and bets, all from the racing insider who nailed the Kentucky Derby exacta!