Armando Aguilar’s career has evolved rapidly at the current Los Alamitos meeting. The 21-year-old apprentice jockey had his first two-win day last Friday, and his fifth career win on Sunday. With his fifth win, Aguilar rides with a seven-pound apprentice allowance, down from 10. Aguilar will claim seven pounds through his 40th career win and will have four chances to add to his career total on Friday’s eight-race program at Los Alamitos. Aguilar is named on Anticipated in the second race, Big Frank Da Tank and the also-eligible College Boy in the fourth, Trouville in the seventh, and Charbonneau in the eighth. Leonard Powell trains College Boy and Trouville. The others are trained by Paul Aguirre, Adam Kitchingman, and Quinn Howey. Charbonneau starts in a $47,000 maiden race at six furlongs for California-breds, the leading race on the program. Trained by Howey, Charbonneau is winless in three starts, including a second at 44-1 in a similar race at Los Alamitos in July. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match and FREE Formulator PPs! Join DRF Bets. By the Blame stallion Far From Over, Charbonneau has not raced since he finished sixth of 10 in a maiden race for statebreds at Del Mar in July. Charbonneau is part of a field of 11 that includes Cathedral Light and Thirsty Pappy, who were second and third in a maiden race for statebreds at Los Alamitos in September, and the first-time starter Bronco Nagurski, a colt by Grazen who is out of the four-time stakes winner Sunday Rules, who won her debut in 2013. Thirsty Pappy, recently transferred from trainer Walther Solis to Peter Miller, will race as a gelding for the first time. Solis ended his career as a racetrack trainer in September for Lovacres Ranch, and now works as the Lovacres’s racing manager. Aguilar, who worked for Solis as an exercise rider before beginning his riding career, won with his first mount in September at Los Alamitos, and won for the first time at Santa Anita aboard Tizzy Twister on Oct. 23. Aguilar was winless with 12 mounts at the Del Mar autumn meeting, and accumulated three wins from 11 mounts at Los Alamitos last weekend. Los Alamitos races for three days this week, from Friday through Sunday, the last weekend of the track’s two-week December meeting. Santa Anita opens its winter-spring meeting on Dec. 26. :: Get Daily Racing Form Past Performances – the exclusive home of Beyer Speed Figures The upcoming weekend provides Aguilar, and several of his colleagues, with chances to win races at a time when many of the circuit’s leading riders have few mounts, if any at all, in advance of the Santa Anita season. Leading riders Juan Hernandez and Flavien Prat, for example, are not in action on Friday, but are scheduled to ride Saturday’s program, which includes the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity. Through Sunday, Ramon Vazquez led the standings at Los Alamitos with four wins. He has six mounts on Friday. Vazquez won riding titles at the two brief meetings earlier this year at Los Alamitos, in the summer and September. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.