Five Stakes Anchor Los Al Spring Meet
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The inaugural spring Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos Race Course includes five stakes and is set to run 12 days from April 14 through May 1.
The stakes program, worth a combined $625,000, features two graded events.
The richest of the stakes is the $200,000 Great Lady M. Stakes (gr. II) for fillies and mares, a holdover from the summer Thoroughbred meet in July the previous two years, and will run April 23.
A longtime fixture at Hollywood Park and run the past two years at Santa Anita Park, the grade III, $100,000 Los Angeles Stakes will be contested at Los Alamitos for the first time April 16.
To be run at 5 1/2 furlongs, the Los Angeles is for 3-year-olds and up and could attract San Onofre and Wild Dude, the 2-3 finishers in the 2015 renewal.
The Los Angeles Stakes is one of two stakes to be run Saturday. The other is the $100,000-guaranteed Bertrando, a one-mile race for California-bred or -sired 3-year-olds and up.
Two stakes being run for the first time complete the schedule.
The $75,000 Surfside for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs, is scheduled for April 24 and the $150,000 California Chrome for 3-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles is slated for April 30.
Racing will be conducted on a Thursday-Sunday basis. First post time will be 2 p.m. PDT daily.