Futurity, Starlet Top Los Alamitos Stakes Schedule

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | 1:48 pm

Wynstock and jockey Kyle Frey, right, outleg Cornell (Edwin Maldonado), left, to win the $100,000 Los Alamitos Derby, Saturday, June 29, 2024 at Los Alamitos Race Course, Cypress CA. © BENOIT PHOTO

Four stakes for 2-year-olds–including a pair of graded races–highlight the upcoming Winter Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos.

The six-day season is scheduled to begin Friday, Dec. 6 and continue through Sunday, Dec. 15. Racing will be conducted on a Friday-Sunday basis (Dec. 8-10 and 15-17) both weeks. Post time will be 12:30 p.m.

The $200,000-guaranteed GII Starlet Stakes, for 2-year-old

fillies, will be renewed for the 11th time at Los Alamitos Saturday, Dec. 7 one week before the $200,000-guaranteed GII Los Alamitos Futurity, which was captured by Wynstock in 2023.

Won a year ago by Nothing Like You, the Starlet–like the Futurity–will be contested at 1 1/16 miles.

The other two stakes for juveniles will be run at one mile and are ungraded. The $100,000 Soviet Problem Stakes will be offered Sunday, Dec. 8 while the $100,000 King Glorious will be run Sunday, Dec. 15. Both are for horses bred or sired in California.

For the complete stakes schedule, visit www.losalamitos.com.