The primary of three daytime thoroughbred meets this 12 months at Los Alamitos will start Saturday, June 22.
The eight-day Los Angeles County Honest season will proceed by means of Sunday, July 7. Racing can be carried out Saturday-Sunday (June 22-23 and June 29-30) the primary two weeks and Saturday-Thursday (July 4-7) the ultimate week Publish time is 1 p.m.
The spotlight of the meet would be the $200,000-guaranteed Nice Woman M. Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs. Â The Grade II for fillies and mares (3-year-olds & up) can be run Saturday, July 6.
The opposite two stakes to be run are the $100,000-guaranteed Bertrando for 3-year-olds & up bred or sired in California and the $125,000-guaranteed Los Alamitos Derby. The one-mile Bertrando is the principle occasion on opening day whereas the Los Alamitos Derby, which is contested at 1 1/8 miles, can be run Saturday, June 29.
The wagering menu consists of the $2 Choose Six—with the normal 70-30 cut up—a pair of $1 Choose 4’s—races 2-5 and the ultimate 4 races— in addition to the favored Gamers’ Choose 5—a 50-cent minimal wager with a lowered 14% takeout price which is obtainable on the primary 5 races.
The Los Alamitos Racing Affiliation may also seed the Choose Six with $10,000 Saturday, June 29 and Saturday, July 6 offered there isn’t any carryover.
There may also be a handicapping contest Saturday, July 6. The LARA will provide a money prize and a pair of berths to the 2025 Nationwide Thoroughbred Racing Handicapping Championship in Las Vegas.
Price to enter is $500. Of that quantity, $100 can be positioned within the contest prize pool with the remaining $400 going in direction of a stay cash wagering card.
Event races will embody the whole Los Alamitos card. Permitted wagers are win, place, present, exactas, trifectas and each day doubles. Every entry should guess no less than $50 on a minimal of 4 races, however there isn’t any wagering restrict.
Proprietor-breeder Nick Alexander and coach Steve Miyadi, who mixed to win the Bertrando with Desmond Doss in 2021 and 2022, could have two representatives within the eleventh renewal of the race Saturday.
Lovesick Blues and Tom Horn, each winners over the native floor, are amongst six who have been entered Tuesday.
A 6-year-old gelded son of Grazen and the Ministers Wild Cat mare Queenofthecastle, Lovesick Blues has received seven of 24 and banked $411,500. He is by no means been worse than third in 5 begins at Los Alamitos, together with a straightforward win in an non-obligatory claimer Sept. 25, 2022 and a runner-up effort behind Kings River Knight on this race a 12 months in the past.
A winner June 9 at Santa Anita, Tom Horn, a 4-year-old Grazen colt out of the Tribal Rule mare Miranda Rose, is 4-for-9 with earnings of $146,460. He broke his maiden by 4 lengths vs. $50,000 state breds through the 2023 LACF season. The Bertrando will mark his first begin past 6 ½ furlongs.
Owned by breeder J. Paul Reddam’s Reddam Racing LLC and skilled by Antonio Garcia, Dont Battle the Fed can be making his Los Alamitos debut. A Nyquist colt out of the Scat Daddy mare Taffeta, the 4-year-old returns to the filth after ending second, defeated by a neck by Purple Cross Knight on the Bertrando distance on turf Might 19. Dont Battle the Fed has received twice—each at eight furlongs—in seven appearances and banked $124,980.
A dominant gate-to-wire winner at one mile June 2 in Arcadia, Dick Finest will make his native debut for proprietor Melvin Simonovich and coach Librado Barocio. A gelded son of Stanford and the Grazen mare Sadie Clare, the 5-year-old has received seven of 25 whereas incomes $144,130. Three of his wins have are available in six foremost observe appearances and he is been worse than third solely as soon as on filth.
A seven-length winner the final time he competed right here, Cowboy Mike can be on the lookout for his fifth profession victory for owner-breeder Connie Pageler and Corridor of Fame coach Bob Baffert. An earner of $204,494 in 11 races, the 4-year-old Smiling Tiger gelding out of the Maria’s Mon mare Lutess has received two of three in 2024 together with his loss coming by a neck because the 1-2 favourite in an non-obligatory claimer Might 4 at Santa Anita.
None Above the Legislation can be attempting to finish an prolonged dropping streak as he makes his fourth begin for proprietor Hector Castrellon and coach Jorge Periban since being claimed for $50,000 from Peter Miller Feb. 24. The 6-year-old grey son of Karakontie and the Northern Afleet mare Legally Blanca has dropped 19 in a row since taking the Grade II Del Mar Derby on turf Sept. 4, 2021. The gelding is 6-for-33 lifetime with earnings of $573,802. One in every of his wins got here in his profession debut at Los Alamitos. He rallied to graduate by one size in opposition to $50,000 state breds July 2, 2020 for Miller and owner-breeders J. Kirk and Judy Robison.
The Bertrando is the final of 9 races Saturday. Approximate submit time is 4:55 p.m.
From inside out, the sphere for the Bertrando Stakes: Â Dont Battle the Fed, Mario Gutierrez rides, 124 kilos; Dick Finest, Ricardo Gonzalez, 124; Cowboy Mike, Edwin Maldonado, 124; None Above the Legislation, Antonio Fresu, 124; Tom Horn, Tyler Baze, 124 and Lovesick Blues, Kyle Frey, 124.
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