It’s closing weekend at Remington Park and Los Alamitos Race Course, and what better way for small tracks to close out a meet than with a Kentucky Derby (G1) prep race? First up is the $300,000 Spri...
It’s time for the $200,000 Starlet Stakes (G2) at Los Alamitos, and that means deciding whether Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will extend his winning streak to seven Starlets in a row. A field of...
By Richard Rosenblatt If you’re following the races on Saturday, there’s a bunch of familiar names showing up at tracks around the country, from Gulfstream Park in Florida to Los Alamitos in Calif...
By Richard Rosenblatt Welcome to the changing of the race meets, with Gulfstream Park, the Fair Grounds, Oaklawn Park, and a short stint at Los Alamitos starting up over the weekend. Aqueduct’s fall...
By Margaret Ransom The $200,000 Best Pal Stakes (G2) at Del Mar on Saturday is the first graded stakes of the year for 2-year-olds racing in Southern California, — a race named for the Californi...
By Margaret Ransom Live racing in Southern California moves to Los Alamitos Race Course in Orange County on Friday (Dec. 4) with an eight-race thoroughbred card, which gets underway at 1 p.m. PT. Th...
By Margaret Ransom For the first time, this year’s Los Alamitos Derby (G3) will take a prominent position as a Kentucky Derby (G1) prep race. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, plus the four-month delay ...
If this seems like a Weekend Wrap of a year ago or so, it should. Sistercharlie, the 2018 Eclipse Award winner as champion older mare, returned to the races after an eight-month layoff and won the $50...
The $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby (G3) returns to be contested for the sixth time at the northern Orange County racetrack after spending four decades known as the Swaps Stakes at the now defunct Hollywo...
Tom Durkin. Trevor Denman. Dave Johnson. Chic Anderson. Larry Collmus. These are just a handful of names that represent some of the most famous voices we’ve all been privileged to hear calling races...
