Starlet, Futurity Highlight Six-Day Los Alamitos Meet

Four stakes worth a combined $700,000 highlight the 2022 Winter Thoroughbred Meet at Los Alamitos Race Course for its six-day stand Dec. 9-18. Racing will be conducted on a Friday-Sunday basis, with first post at 12:30 p.m. PT.

The first of the stakes races is the most lucrative—$300,000 Starlet Stakes (G1) for 2-year-old fillies. The race at 1 1/16 miles will be run Dec. 10.

One week later on Dec. 17, 2-year-old males are spotlighted in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), also at 1 1/16 miles.

The Starlet and the Los Alamitos Futurity serve as points races on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks and Road to the Kentucky Derby, respectively. They regularly attract some of the top juveniles based in Southern California.

Completing the schedule are two races at one mile for 2-year-olds bred or sired in California: the $100,000 Soviet Problem Stakes for fillies  Dec. 11 and the $100,000 King Glorious Stakes for colts and geldings Dec. 18.

Entries for opening day of the winter afternoon meet will be taken Dec. 6. The Los Alamitos Thoroughbred meet follows fall racing at Del Mar and precedes a winter/spring meet at Santa Anita Park that begins Dec. 26.

Los Alamitos, located in Orange County, also conducts evening racing of Quarter Horses and lower-level Thoroughbreds over much of the year.