DEL MAR: CLASSIC FIELD GETS CROWDED.

Byline: Kevin Modesti Staff Writer

A day after Mazel Trick was injured in a workout, knocking the heavy favorite out of Sunday's Pacific Classic, the field for Del Mar's $1 million race grew to as many as 11 horses.

The trainer of Such Charisma, who has never raced on dirt, said the colt will be entered this morning, when post positions are scheduled to be drawn. And the trainers of turf specialists Ladies Din and Army of One as well as New York-based Catienus indicated their horses might be entered in the 1-1/4-mile race, weakened by this month's injuries to Victory Gallop, Real Quiet and Mazel Trick.

Previously confirmed were Malek, General Challenge, Barter Town, River Keen, Lazy Lode, Smile Again and Jack Grandi. It was announced Wednesday that Smile Again has been purchased by Sidney Craig from Saudi Prince Ahmed Salman's Thoroughbred Corp. and moved to Ron McAnally's barn from Alex Hassinger's.

``I think it's a wide-open race, don't you?'' said Humberto Ascanio, assistant to Bobby Frankel, the Mazel Trick trainer whose hope for a fifth Pacific Classic victory now depends on Barter Town.

Mazel Trick fractured both sesamoid bones in his right foreleg and was pulled to a stop by jockey Chris McCarron during what would have been a 5-furlong workout Tuesday morning at Del Mar. He was reported comfortable in his stall Wednesday.

Whether the Hollywood Park 7-furlong record setter will survive and go to stud at former Kentucky Gov. Brereton Jones' Airdrie Stud, under an agreement negotiated last month, will depend on his recovery from surgery scheduled for Friday in Rancho Santa Fe, veterinarian Helmuth Von Bluecher said.

The surgery by Kentucky-based vet Larry Bramlage will be designed to fuse the fetlock joint with screws, wire and a metal plate, allowing the leg to bear weight.

``He's not out of the woods,'' Ascanio said of Mazel Trick. ``We'll know after they do the surgery.''

While Frankel was at Saratoga on Wednesday, preparing the filly Keeper Hill for Friday's Personal Ensign Handicap, Ascanio supervised a 3-furlong workout in 37 2/5 seconds by Barter Town and jockey Kent Desormeaux.

Juddmonte Farms' Barter Town, who hasn't won at the stakes level, comes out of neck losses to Worldly Ways in Golden Gate Fields' All-American Handicap and to River Keen in Hollywood Park's Bel Air Handicap. Desormeaux will take over from Victor Espinoza.

``Barter Town is no slouch,'' Frankel had said when it appeared he'd have both that 4-year-old and Mazel Trick in the Pacific Classic.

Frankel trained the winners of four consecutive Pacific Classics - Missionary Ridge, Bertrando and Tinners Way twice - starting with the second running of the race for 3-year-olds and up in 1992.