Odds-on favorites lorded it over small fields in both of Del Mar’s Sunday stakes for three-year-olds.

Sunday's Del Mar Derby (G2) and Shared Belief S. have a common theme: small fields dominated by multiple entrants from high-profile barns.

After dangling a few high-profile comeback options for Muth over the summer, Bob Baffert ultimately settled on Sunday’s Shared Belief S. at Del Mar.

On Saturday at Del Mar, trainers Bob Baffert and Phil D’Amato combined to win a quartet of graded stakes. On Sunday, they continued their winning ways.

Sunday’s Del Mar Derby (G2) offers a showdown between the winners of the seaside track’s stepping-stone stakes, Oceanside S. hero Conclude and La Jolla H. (G3) victor Maltese Falcon.

Proving just as tough to pass as he was in the Kentucky Derby (G1), 9-10 favorite Medina Spirit repelled Rock Your World to post a front-running victory in Sunday’s $100,500 Shared Belief S. at Del Mar.

As Medina Spirit awaits the adjudication of his first-past-the-post result in the Kentucky Derby (G1), the Bob Baffert trainee resumes his campaign in Sunday’s $100,000 Shared Belief S. at Del Mar.

Del Mar hosts a double feature Saturday with the $100,000 Shared Belief Stakes, a Road to the Kentucky Derby series prep, and the $250,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1), a "Win and You're In" Breeders' Challenge prep for the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Keeneland in November.

The Kentucky Derby is five weeks from Saturday and the final round of prep races have begun, with the July 18 Haskell (G1) producing three expected contestants.