Juvenile Stakes Highlight Los Alamitos Winter Meet

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Four stakes written for juveniles–two each for males and females–will be featured during the upcoming six-day winter meeting at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, California.

Live racing will take place Friday through Sunday on consecutive weekends between Dec. 5 and 7 and Dec. 12 and 14. The first of the added-money events is the $200,000 GII Starlet Stakes for 2-year-old fillies and a mile and a sixteenth to be run Saturday, Dec. 6. Its male counterpart, the $200,000 GII Los Alamitos Futurity will be contested on Saturday, Dec. 13 also at 8 1/2 furlongs.

A pair of Cal-bred restricted races are also planned–the $100,000 Soviet Problem Stakes for the fillies runs Sunday, Dec. 7, while the closing-day feature is the $100,000 King Glorious Stakes on Dec. 14. Each race is run over a mile.

The wagering menu includes a pair of $1 Pick 4's on races 2-5 and the final four races along with a $2 Pick Six as well as the Players' Pick 5–a 50-cent minimum bet with a reduced takeout rate of 14% rate–on the first five races.

The Pick Six will have the standard 70-30 split with 70% of the pool going to those tickets with six winners with the remaining 30% going to tickets with five of six winners.

There will also be a handicapping contest Saturday, Dec. 13 and the Los Alamitos Racing Association will offer a cash prize and a pair of berths in the 2026 National Thoroughbred Racing Association Handicapping Championship in Las Vegas. Cost to enter is $500. Of that amount, $100 will be placed in the contest prize pool with the remaining $400 going towards a live money wagering card.

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