Los Alamitos Derby draws field of five

Saturday’s $100,000 Los Alamitos Derby has drawn a field of five, including the stakes winners Tapalo and Wynstock and the stakes-placed Cornell.

Kamaina Cruiser, a maiden race winner at Golden Gate Fields in his last start on June 1, will have his stakes debut in the Los Alamitos Derby, run at 1 1/8 miles.

The race will be the fourth stakes appearance for Curlin’s Kaos, who was fourth in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby in April and seventh by 1 1/2 lengths as the 2-1 favorite in the Snow Chief Stakes for statebreds at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Santa Anita on May 25.

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Trainer Bob Baffert has won the last seven runnings of the Los Alamitos Derby, and runs Cornell, who was third in the Affirmed Stakes at Santa Anita on June 9, and Wynstock, who is winless in three starts since a win in the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity last December.

Tapalo starts on the strength of a seven-length win in the Lazaro Barrera Stakes at seven furlongs at Santa Anita on May 12. Earlier this year, Tapalo was second in the El Camino Real Derby at 1 1/16 miles at Golden Gate Fields in February, but only fifth of eight in Santa Anita Derby.

The Los Alamitos Derby is the richest race of the second of three weeks of racing at the Los Alamitos daytime Thoroughbred summer meeting. Racing will be held on Saturday and Sunday this weekend, followed by a four-day week of racing from July 4-7.

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