DEL MAR — Journalism isn’t quite the best horse in North America so far this year, but he is the most entertaining. His wins are come-from-behind thrillers. His losses are come-from-ahead heartbreakers.

After taking his show on the road for most of the spring and summer, 3-year-old Journalism brings it home to California to run in the $1 million, Grade I Pacific Classic on Saturday at Del Mar, vying for the starring role with 4-year-olds Nysos and Fierceness in a field of eight.

It’s a new chapter in the colt’s story as he faces older horses for the first time and attention shifts to getting ready for the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, to be run Nov. 1 at the same Del Mar track and 1¼-mile distance as the Pacific Classic.

“The first half (of the year) was focused on the classics, and

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