Los Alamitos Futurity
Grade II race
LocationLos Alamitos Race Course
Cypress, California
Inaugurated1981 (at Hollywood Park Racetrack as Hollywood Futurity)
Race typeThoroughbred – Flat racing
WebsiteLos Alamitos
Race information
Distance1+1⁄16 miles
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-olds
Weight120 lbs.
Purse$200,000 (since 2022)

The Los Alamitos Futurity is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds run over a distance of one and one sixteenth miles (8+1⁄2 furlongs) on the dirt held annually in early December at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, California. The event currently offers a purse of $200,000.

History

The inaugural running of the event was on 29 November 1981 as the Hollywood Futurity and was won by Stalwart whose $365,805 winner's share was one of the largest in the history of American racing.[1]

The event was upgrade to the highest classification of Grade I event in 1983. That year, 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.[2]

Between 1985 and 1990 the event was run at a shorter distance of one mile.[3]

With his win in 1987, Tejano became the first two-year-old to achieve career earnings of $1 million.[4]

The 1989 winner Grand Canyon won his fourth straight event and was undefeated winning by 6+1⁄2 lengths in a fastest time ever set by a two-year-old of 1:33 flat.[5]

In 2006 the event was run on a new synthetic Cushion Track which was installed at Hollywood Park.[6]

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.[6] Reddam's Slow Down Andy won the 2021 edition of the event.

With the closure of Hollywood Park Racetrack in late 2013 the event was moved to the Los Alamitos Race Course and renamed to the Los Alamitos Futurity and held on the dirt track.[6] The winner of the event in 2014 the 3/5 odds-on favorite Dortmund broke the Los Alamitos track record for the 1+1⁄16 miles distance.[7]

In 2019 the event was downgraded by the American Graded Stakes Committee to Grade II status.[8]

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.

Colts that won this event and went on to take US Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse honors include Roving Boy (1982), Declan's Moon (2004) and Shared Belief (2013).

Colts that won this event and went later in their careers to take awards include Snow Chief, 1986 US Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse, A. P. Indy, 1992 US Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse and US Horse of the Year, Real Quiet, 1999 US Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse, Point Given, 2001 US Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse, Lookin at Lucky, 2010 US Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse. Alysheba finished second to Temperate Sil by a neck in the 1986 Hollywood Futurity[9] but the following year after a sensational season was also honored with US Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse honors and in 1988 was US Champion Older Dirt Male Horse and US Horse of the Year.

2018 winner Improbable captured US Champion Older Dirt Male Horse honors in 2020. In 1985 Ferdinand finished 3rd to Snow Chief in the event. After an outstanding season as a four-year-old, Ferdinand was voted US Horse of the Year.

US Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has saddled 14 winners in this event which includes seven winners in row between 2014 and 2020.

Records

Speed records:

Margins:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners

Year Winner Jockey Trainer Owner Distance Time Purse Grade Ref
At Los Alamitos – Los Alamitos Futurity
2023 Wynstock Kyle Frey Bob Baffert Edward C. Allred & Jack Liebau 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.53 $200,000 II [10]
2022 Practical Move Ramon A. Vazquez Tim Yakteen Pierre J. Amestoy, Leslie A. Amestoy & Roger K. Beasley 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.65 $200,000 II [11]
2021 Slow Down Andy Mario Gutierrez Doug O'Neill Reddam Racing 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.33 $300,000 II [12]
2020 Spielberg Flavien Prat Bob Baffert SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Golconda Stables, Siena Farm & Robert E. Masterson 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.56 $200,500 II [13]
2019 Thousand Words Flavien Prat Bob Baffert Albaugh Family Stable, Spendthrift Farm 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.19 $200,000 II [14]
2018 Improbable Drayden Van Dyke Bob Baffert WinStar Farm, China Horse Club & Starlight Racing 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.18 $300,345 I [15]
2017 †McKinzie Mike E. Smith Bob Baffert Karl Watson, Michael E. Pegram, Paul Weitman 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.57 $300,000 I [16]
2016 Mastery Mike E. Smith Bob Baffert Cheyenne Stable 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.56 $300,000 I [17]
2015 Mor Spirit Gary L. Stevens Bob Baffert Michael Lund Petersen 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.54 $350,500 I [18]
2014 Dortmund Martin Garcia Bob Baffert Kaleem Shah 1+1⁄16 miles 1:40.86 $500,000 I [19]
At Hollywood Park – CashCall Futurity
2013 Shared Belief Corey Nakatani Jerry Hollendorfer Jungle Racing, Jerry Hollendorfer, George Todaro, Jason Litt & Alex Solis II 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.16 $751,500 I [20]
2012 Violence Javier Castellano Todd A. Pletcher Black Rock Thoroughbreds 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.50 $750,000 I [21]
2011 Liaison Rafael Bejarano Bob Baffert Arnold Zetcher 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.86 $750,000 I [22]
2010 Comma to the Top Corey Nakatani Peter L. Miller Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Kevin Tsujihara 1+1⁄16 miles 1:44.72 $750,000 I [23]
2009 Lookin At Lucky Garrett K. Gomez Bob Baffert Karl Watson, Michael E. Pegram & Paul Weitman 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.30 $750,000 I [24]
2008 Pioneerof the Nile Garrett K. Gomez Bob Baffert Zayat Stables 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.95 $750,000 I [25]
2007 Into Mischief Victor Espinoza Richard E. Mandella B. Wayne Hughes 1+1⁄16 miles 1:40.82 $753,000 I [26]
Hollywood Futurity
2006 Stormello Kent J. Desormeaux William L. Currin William L. Currin & Alvin Eisman 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.19 $441,500 I [27]
2005 Brother Derek Alex O. Solis Dan L. Hendricks Cecil N. Peacock 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.02 $407,250 I [28]
2004 Declan's Moon Victor Espinoza Ronald W. Ellis Jay Em Ess Stable 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.63 $446,500 I [29]
2003 Lion Heart Mike E. Smith Patrick L. Biancone Derrick Smith & Michael B. Tabor 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.80 $376,000 I [30]
2002 Toccet Jorge F. Chavez John F. Scanlan Daniel M. Borislow 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.26 $406,500 I [31]
2001 Siphonic Jerry D. Bailey David E. Hofmans Amerman Racing Stables 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.09 $456,750 I [32]
2000 Point Given Gary L. Stevens Bob Baffert The Thoroughbred Corporation 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.21 $333,690 I [33]
1999 Captain Steve Robby Albarado Bob Baffert Michael E. Pegram 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.27 $419,000 I [34]
1998 Tactical Cat Laffit Pincay Jr. D. Wayne Lukas Overbrook Farm 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.63 $393,000 I [35]
1997 Real Quiet Kent J. Desormeaux Bob Baffert Michael E. Pegram 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.34 $470,200 I [36]
1996 Swiss Yodeler Alex O. Solis Mike Harrington Heinz J. Steinmann 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.70 $580,850 I [37]
1995 Matty G Alex O. Solis Ron McAnally Double J Farm 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.75 $500,000 I [38]
1994 Afternoon Deelites Kent J. Desormeaux Richard E. Mandella Burt Bacharach 1+1⁄16 miles 1:40.74 $500,000 I [39]
1993 Valiant Nature Laffit Pincay Jr. Ron McAnally V H W Stable 1+1⁄16 miles 1:40.78 $500,000 I [40]
1992 River Special Laffit Pincay Jr. Robert B. Hess Jr. Golden Eagle Farm 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.27 $500,000 I [41]
1991 A.P. Indy Eddie Delahoussaye Neil D. Drysdale Tomonori Tsurumaki 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.85 $599,600 I [42]
1990 §Best Pal Jose A. Santos Ian P. D. Jory Golden Eagle Farm 1 mile 1:35.40 $1,000,000 I [43]
1989 Grand Canyon Angel Cordero Jr. D. Wayne Lukas Overbrook Farm 1 mile 1:33.00 $1,000,000 I [5]
1988 King Glorious Chris McCarron Jerry Hollendorfer Four M Stable & Halo Farms 1 mile 1:35.60 $1,000,000 I [44]
1987 Tejano Laffit Pincay Jr. D. Wayne Lukas Lloyd R. French Jr. 1 mile 1:34.60 $1,000,000 I [4]
1986 Temperate Sil Bill Shoemaker Charles E. Whittingham Frankfurt Stables & Charles E. Whittingham 1 mile 1:36.10 $1,000,000 I [9]
1985 Snow Chief Alex O. Solis Melvin F. Stute Carl Grinstead & Ben Rochelle 1 mile 1:34.20 $1,172,000 I [45]
1984 Stephan's Odyssey Eddie Maple Woodford C. Stephens Henryk de Kwiatkowski 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.40 $1,140,000 I [46]
1983 Fali Time Sandy Hawley Gary F. Jones James Mamakos & Mark Stubrin 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.60 $1,049,725 I [2]
1982 Roving Boy Eddie Delahoussaye Joseph Manzi Robert E. Hibbert 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.80 $811,400 [47]
1981 Stalwart Chris McCarron D. Wayne Lukas Marvin L. Warner & John C. Oxley 1+1⁄16 miles 1:47.80 $715,100 [48]

Legend:
  All Weather Track   Dirt
Notes:
§ Ran as an entry
† In the 2017 running of the event Solomini finished was first past the finishing line but was disqualified and placed third for interference in the deep stretch drive and placed third. McKinzie was declared the winner and Instilled Regard placed second.

See also

References

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