Bh Lisas Boy provides 17-year-old rider with big win in Go Man Go Handicap

Bh Lisas Boy gave 17-year-old jockey Oscar Andrade Jr. his first six-figure stakes win in Sunday’s $100,000 Go Man Go Handicap for Quarter Horses at Los Alamitos.

Bh Lisas Boy ($17) finished a half-length in front of 5-1 Katies Easy Moves, running 400 yards in 19.44 seconds. He Looks Hot (6-1) finished third, a nose behind Katies Easy Moves in a field that included three champions.

Tarzanito, the champion aged stallion of 2018, finished fourth, while Hotstepper, the overall champion 3-year-old and champion 3-year-old gelding of 2018, finished sixth. Zoomin For Spuds, the champion 3-year-old gelding of 2016, finished eighth.

Jesstacartel, who won the Los Alamitos Super Derby last November, was fifth as the 6-5 favorite. There were 10 starters, but nine finishers. Da One Two Special fell about 100 yards into the race and was vanned off. His condition was not immediately known.

Bh Lisas Boy, 7, races for Bill Hoburg, who bred, owns and trains the gelding. Bh Lisas Boy has won 22 of 41 starts and earned $858,553. The Go Man Go Handicap, the track’s leading race for older horses of the summer, was Bh Lisas Boy’s 10th career stakes win at Los Alamitos.

Hoburg said Bh Lisas Boy will be pointed for the Robert Boniface Los Alamitos Championship on Oct. 13, another of the track’s leading races for older horses.

Andrade, who had his first mount last fall, began riding Bh Lisas Boy in the summer and has won two of four starts on the veteran, including the California Challenge Championship on Aug. 10.