On Saturday at Los Alamitos, the featured race is the $350,000 Los Alamitos Futurity. Carded at a mile and a sixteenth, the Grade 1 event has drawn a field of seven two-year-old colts and geldings.
Mor Spirit tops the field as the morning line favorite at odds of 8-5 and is one of two horses in the race for trainer Bob Baffert. A dark bay son of Eskendereya, he was purchased for $650,000 earlier in the year and has been on the board in all three starts. He is looking for his second career win and was last seen finishing second in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) after breaking his maiden. Gary Stevens will be in the irons and the will break from post five.
The second choice at morning line odds of 9-5 is the other Bob Baffert trainee, Toews on Ice. A dark bay son of Archarcharch, he has been on the board in all five starts and is a three-time winner. He is coming into this race off of a three-race win streak and was last seen winning the Bob Hope Stakes (G3) at Del Mar in November. Martin Garcia will be aboard from post position four.
Also in the field at morning line odds of 6-1 is Hollywood Don for trainer Peter Miller. A dark bay son of Tapit, he sold for $245,000 earlier in the year and has two wins from five starts including a minor stakes victory. He is trying to rebound after finishing ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) and will switch to conventional dirt. Victor Espinoza will be aboard from post three.
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