Cal-bred Stakes Set for Los Alamitos

Nov 25, 2018 Posted by In Announcement

From Los Alamitos Publicity

CYPRESS, Calif. (Nov. 26, 2018) — A pair of stakes for Golden State Series eligibles will be held at the upcoming Winter Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos.

The stakes will be run at one mile and are ungraded. The $100,000 Soviet Problem – for fillies – will be offered Saturday, Dec. 15 while the $100,000 King Glorious will be run Sunday, Dec. 16. Both are for 2-year-olds bred or sired in California.

The eight-day season will begin Thursday, Dec. 6 and continue through Sunday, Dec. 16.

The $300,000-guaranteed Los Alamitos CashCall Futurity and the $300,000-guaranteed Starlet – for fillies – will be renewed on Saturday, Dec. 8. Hall of Famer Bob Baffert became the first trainer to win the Starlet and CashCall Futurity in the same year in 2017, capturing the Starlet with Dream Tree and the Futurity – via disqualification – with McKinzie.

Baffert has won all four runnings of the Futurity at Los Alamitos, taking the 2014 renewal with Dortmund, then scoring with Mor Spirit (2015) and Mastery (2016) prior to McKinzie’s success.

Among the nominees to the Futurity, are double Grade I winner Game Winner, King of Speed, a two-time stakes winner on turf for trainer Jeff Bonde, and first out Los Alamitos winner Mucho Gusto.

Nominees for the Starlet, which was won a year ago by the Baffert-trained Dream Tree, include Del Mar Debutante and Chandelier winner Bellafina, Chasing Yesterday, who won the Anoakia Stakes Oct. 14, and Barretts Debutante heroine Kim K.

Track gates – including the Clubhouse and Vessels Club – will open at 9:30 a.m. General parking is free with grandstand admission $3 – $2 for seniors 62 and older.
 
The wagering menu includes the $2 Pick Six, a pair of $1 Pick 4’s – races 2-5 and the final four – as well as a pair of Pick 5’s – which are 50-cent minimum wagers – on the first five races and the last five.
 
The Pick Six will have the standard 70-30 split with 70% of the pool going to those tickets with six winners and the remaining 30% going to tickets with five of six winners.
 
Entries for the opening day card will be taken Monday, Dec. 3.

 

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