Trainer Bob Baffert has owned the race currently known as the Los Alamitos Futurity. But it is the last important race this year for 2-year-olds in Southern California hoping to move on to the Kentucky Derby trail. It is worth a minimal amount of Kentucky Derby qualifying points. “Now we can start thinking [Kentucky] Derby,” said Baffert, a six-time winner of the Louisville race. Only one of those 13 has gone on to win the Kentucky Derby, Real Quiet in 1997.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 20, 2020 00:41 UTC