Los Alamitos opens 12-day meet Thursday

Los Alamitos will begin its 12-day summer meeting Thursday with a relatively quiet four-day week of racing. There are no stakes scheduled during the opening week. The first stakes will be the $100,000 Bertrando Stakes for statebred milers July 4.

Racing will be on a Thursday-through-Sunday basis the first and third weeks. The second week will have racing on July 4, no racing on July 5, and three days of racing from July 6-8. The meeting concludes July 15.

The richest race of the season is the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes on July 7, a $200,000 race for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs. The Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby at 1 1/8 miles on July 14 is the final stakes of the meeting.

West Coast, the eventual 3-year-old champion of 2017, won the Los Alamitos Derby last year.