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The $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Sunday will be a day out for the boys.

Blind Luck will not be sent to New York or New Jersey for a major stakes next weekend, and her participation in the $1 million Pacific Classic next Sunday is not a certainty, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said on Saturday.

On opposite sides of the nation Wednesday, Blind Luck and Havre de Grace had workouts as their owners and trainers contemplate options.

Blind Luck worked six furlongs in 1:13.40 at Del Mar on Wednesday, but trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said he has to finalize plans about where the champion 3-year-old filly will start on Aug. 28.

Midway through Saturday's $250,000 Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park, jockey Garrett Gomez glanced in front of him to check the margins between his mount, Blind Luck, and Switch, the 3-2 favorite.

Caracortado, who will be after his first Grade 1 win in Saturday's $300,000 Frank Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita, has changed in the last year.

A slow pace set by a filly in peak form gave Always a Princess her second consecutive stakes win in Sunday's $150,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita.

Blind Luck, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2010, will be ridden by leading jockey Rafael Bejarano in the $150,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 13, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said.

Always a Princess upset Blind Luck in Sunday's $150,000 El Encino Stakes at Santa Anita, taking advantage of a track that favors speed in two-turn races to win by 3 1/2 lengths.

Blind Luck, winner of five graded stakes this year, worked five furlongs in 1:01.20 at Hollywood Park on Sunday for the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic on Nov. 5, a race in which she will be favored.

Joel Rosario will ride City to City and will have the mount on Blind Luck for her next two starts, the trainer said.

After narrow losses in three graded stakes in Southern California earlier this year, Switch finally reached the winner's circle in an important race in Sunday's $150,000 Hollywood Oaks at Hollywood Park, and in doing so upset division leader Blind Luck.

This time, the photo finish went in Evening Jewel's favor.

Kentucky Oaks heroine Blind Luck may make her next start in the $250,000 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park on June 26, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Sunday.

Blind Luck, the leading 3-year-old filly in California, worked six furlongs in 1:14.80 at Hollywood Park on Friday, her final workout before traveling to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Oaks, to be run next Friday.

Jerry Hollendorfer already has the leading 3-year-old filly in the nation in Blind Luck, the winner of Friday's Fantasy Stakes at Oaklawn Park and a top contender for the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on April 30.