Tag: Los Alamitos Derby

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 meet concludes …

By Richard Rosenblatt A clean break and a less-than-speedy early pace turned out to be the perfect setup for Vekoma in the $500,000 Metropolitan Mile (G1) at Belmont Park on the Fourth of July. The …

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 of …

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 $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 Hollywood Park. …

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 at American …

The annual three-week summer thoroughbred season at Los Alamitos gets underway on Saturday with a nine-race card highlighted by one of three stakes during the meet, the $100,000 Bertrando Stakes. The one-mile event for 3-year-olds …

The names of just five runners were dropped into the entry box for Saturday’s $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby, which is now in its fourth year Los Al after being run at Hollywood Park as the …