Los Alamitos Futurity
Grade I race | |
Location |
Los Alamitos Race Course Cypress, California |
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Inaugurated | 1981 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Website |
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Race information | |
Distance | 1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Two-year-olds |
Weight | All starters carry 121 pounds |
Purse | $350,000 |
The Los Alamitos Futurity is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 1981, originally at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California where it was called the Hollywood Futurity and later the CashCall Futurity. Beginning in 2014 it has been run at Los Alamitos Race Course, following the closure of Hollywood Park.[1] The Grade I race is open to two-year-old horses and run over a distance of 1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs). It was raced on dirt until 2006 when Hollywood Park Racetrack installed the synthetic racing surface known as Cushion Track. It returned to a dirt track when the race moved to Los Alamitos.
Raced in the latter part of December, the race currently offers a purse of $350,000. In 1983, the race had a total purse of $1,049,725, making it the first million-dollar race for two-year-olds and the richest Thoroughbred horse race at the time.
Inaugurated as the Hollywood Futurity, in 2007 the race name was changed to the CashCall Futurity under a sponsorship arrangement with the racing stable owner and founder of the CashCall consumer lending company, J. Paul Reddam. Originally raced at the current 8.5 furlongs, between 1985 and 1990 the event was run at 8 furlongs.
Six Futurity starters have gone on to win the Kentucky Derby: Gato Del Sol (1982), Ferdinand (1986), Alysheba (1987), Thunder Gulch (1995), Real Quiet (1998), and Giacomo (2005). Preakness winners include Snow Chief (1986), Lookin at Lucky (2010), and Belmont winner A. P. Indy (1992). Real Quiet won the Derby and Preakness and Point Given won the 2001 Preakness & Belmont. Oxbow, who was fourth in the 2012 Futurity, won the Preakness. With his win in 1987, Tejano became the first two-year-old to achieve career earnings of $1 million.
Records
Speed records:
- 1:40.74 - Afternoon Deelites (1994) 8.5f
- 1:33.00 - Grand Canyon (1989) 1 mile
Most wins by a jockey:
- 4 - Alex Solis (1985, 1995, 1996, 2005)
- 4 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. (1987, 1992, 1993, 1998)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 8 - Bob Baffert (1997, 1999, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015)
Most wins by an owner:
- 2 - Overbrook Farm (1989, 1998)
- 2 - Golden Eagle Farm (1990, 1992)
- 2 - Michael E. Pegram (1997, 1999, 2009)
Winners
Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Mor Spirit | Gary Stevens | Bob Baffert | Michael Lund Petersen | 1:43.54 |
2014 | Dortmund | Martin Garcia | Bob Baffert | Kaleem Shah | 1:40.86 |
2013 | Shared Belief | Corey Nakatani | Jerry Hollendorfer | Jungle Racing, Hollendorfer, Todaro, et al. | 1:42.16 |
2012 | Violence | Javier Castellano | Todd Pletcher | Black Rock Thoroughbreds | 1:43.50 |
2011 | Liaison | Rafael Bejarano | Bob Baffert | Arnold Zetcher | 1:42.86 |
2010 | Comma to the Top | Corey Nakatani | Peter Miller | Barber/Birnbaum/Tsujihara | 1:44.72 |
2009 | Lookin at Lucky | Garrett Gomez | Bob Baffert | Michael E. Pegram | 1:43.30 |
2008 | Pioneerof the Nile | Garrett Gomez | Bob Baffert | Zayat Stables | 1:41.95 |
2007 | Into Mischief | Victor Espinoza | Richard Mandella | B. Wayne Hughes | 1:40.82 |
2006 | Stormello | Kent Desormeaux | William L. Currin | W. L. Currin & A. Eisman | 1:42.19 |
2005 | Brother Derek | Alex Solis | Dan Hendricks | Cecil N. Peacock | 1:42.02 |
2004 | Declan's Moon | Victor Espinoza | Ronald W. Ellis | Jay Em Ess Stable | 1:41.63 |
2003 | Lion Heart | Mike E. Smith | Patrick Biancone | Smith & Tabor | 1:42.80 |
2002 | Toccet | Jorge Chavez | John F. Scanlan | Dan Borislow | 1:41.26 |
2001 | Siphonic | Jerry D. Bailey | David Hofmans | Amerman Racing Stables | 1:42.09 |
2000 | Point Given | Gary Stevens | Bob Baffert | The Thoroughbred Corp. | 1:42.21 |
1999 | Captain Steve | Robby Albarado | Bob Baffert | Michael E. Pegram | 1:43.27 |
1998 | Tactical Cat | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | D. Wayne Lukas | Overbrook Farm | 1:42.63 |
1997 | Real Quiet | Kent Desormeaux | Bob Baffert | Michael E. Pegram | 1:41.34 |
1996 | Swiss Yodeler | Alex Solis | Mike Harrington | Heinz Steinmann | 1:42.70 |
1995 | Matty G | Alex Solis | Ron McAnally | Jack & Joan Goodwin | 1:41.75 |
1994 | Afternoon Deelites | Kent Desormeaux | Richard Mandella | Burt Bacharach | 1:40.74 |
1993 | Valiant Nature | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | Ron McAnally | Verne Winchell | 1:40.78 |
1992 | River Special | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | Robert B. Hess, Jr. | Golden Eagle Farm | 1:43.27 |
1991 | A.P. Indy | Ed Delahoussaye | Neil D. Drysdale | Tomonori Tsurumaki | 1:42.85 |
1990 | Best Pal | Jose A. Santos | Gary F. Jones | Golden Eagle Farm | 1:35.40 |
1989 | Grand Canyon | Angel Cordero, Jr. | D. Wayne Lukas | Overbrook Farm | 1:33.00 |
1988 | King Glorious | Chris McCarron | Jerry Hollendorfer | Four M Stable/Halo Farms | 1:35.60 |
1987 | Tejano | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | D. Wayne Lukas | Lloyd R. French, Jr. | 1:34.60 |
1986 | Temperate Sil | Bill Shoemaker | Charles Whittingham | Frankfurt Stables & Whittingham | 1:36.10 |
1985 | Snow Chief | Alex Solis | Melvin F. Stute | C. Grinstead / B. Rochelle | 1:34.20 |
1984 | Stephans Odyssey | Eddie Maple | Woody Stephens | Henryk de Kwiatkowski | 1:43.40 |
1983 | Fali Time | Sandy Hawley | Gary F. Jones | J. Mamakos/Dr. M. Stubrin | 1:41.60 |
1982 | Roving Boy | Ed Delahoussaye | Joseph Manzi | Robert E. Hibbert | 1:41.80 |
1981 | Stalwart | Chris McCarron | D. Wayne Lukas | Marvin L. Warner | 1:47.80 |
See also
References
- ↑ Shinar, Jack. "Dortmund Wins Dramatic Los Alamitos Futurity". bloodhorse.com. Retrieved 23 December 2014.