By Jarrod Horak The $100,000 Bertrando Stakes headlines Saturday card at Los Alamitos Race Course, going as Race 9 for California-bred horses aged three and up. The one-mile dirt contest has attracted a compact field of six. After reviewing the pace scenario, speed figures, and track profile, Coach Cronin emerges as the horse to beat. […]
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By Jarrod Horak This handicapping article and video features analysis of the $100,000 King Glorious Stakes at Los Alamitos Race Course using Today’s Racing Digest past performances. King Glorious field: 1 – Mo Holland Drive (8-1), 2 – Smoovin Saturday (5-1), 3 – Can’t Help Myself (2-1), 4 – Fionello (6-1), 5 – Tommy Norris […]
By Jarrod Horak. The Los Alamitos Futurity is a Kentucky Derby 2026 points race and it runs as Race 8 at Los Alamitos Race Course on Saturday, December 13, 2025. It’s a Grade 2 for two-year-olds, $200,000 purse, one mile and a sixteenth on the main track, with a scheduled 7:00 p.m. Eastern post time. The […]
By Jarrod Horak In this horse racing handicapping video, I analyze the Grade 2, $200,000 Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos Race Course using Today’s Racing Digest past performances. Starlet field: 1 – Himika (5-2), 2 – Cashed (8-1), 3 – Consequent (3-1), 4 – Cosmic Heat (8-1), 5 – Jewlz (20-1), 6 – Nimah (6-5). […]
By Jarrod Horak The road to Kentucky Derby 2024 continues at Los Alamitos Race Course on Saturday, December 16, and I have included Los Alamitos Futurity 2023 picks below. The Grade 2 event for 2-year-olds has a $200,000 purse and the six entrants will be traveling 1 1/16 miles on the main track. It is […]
By Jarrod Horak The road to Kentucky Oaks 2024 continues at Los Alamitos Race Course on Saturday, December 9, and I have included Starlet 2023 picks below. The Grade 2 event for 2-year-old fillies has a $200,000 purse and the six entrants will be traveling 1 1/16 miles on the main track. It is the […]
By Jarrod Horak The 2023 Kentucky Derby featured a blistering pace and place finisher Two Phil’s was the only forwardly placed runner around at the end. On July 8, two pace casualties from the Derby got back on track with stakes victories. First up was Verifying in the Grade 3 Indiana Derby. He dueled from […]
By Jarrod Horak The 2023 Los Alamitos Derby at 1 1/8 miles on July 8 looks like a match race on paper between Grade 3 Sham hero Reincarnate and Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby show finisher Skinner. The former has the tactical edge and the latter has the most upside. Last week, I covered […]