Pick six consists entirely of 300-yard races

The $2 pick six at Los Alamitos on Friday begins with a carryover of $20,764. By the time, the first race in the sequence is run, at approximately 9:55 p.m. Eastern, the pool may have grown by $75,000.

Friday’s pick six consists entirely of 300-yard Quarter Horse races, including three maiden special weight races for 2-year-olds, and ends with an allowance race for 3-year-olds who are nonwinners of two.

The pick six at Los Alamitos has a conventional structure, with a majority of the net pool paid to ticketholders with six winners, or into a carryover. There are no jackpot provisions requiring a single winning ticket.

First post time is 9 p.m. Eastern, or 6 p.m. Pacific. Wagering is available through DRFBets.com.

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While the pick six does not includes any races at 4 1/2 furlongs for Thoroughbreds or 1,000-yard races open to Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds, the 300-yard races in the pick six sequence have solid field sizes, with entries of 10, 9, 9, 7, 9, and 7.

The maiden races for 2-year-olds deserve particular scrutiny for bettors involved in the pick six or the $1 early or late pick four wagers.

The fourth race, the first 2-year-old race for maidens, includes the promising first-time starters Cartels Legacy and One Famous Miss, as well as Danjerous, a $340,000 yearling purchase who was a troubled third in her debut April 19.

The fifth race, the first race in the late pick four, has nine first-time starters. Kindly Cartel, trained by Jose Flores, and Thats R Best Card, trained by Jaime Gomez, have worked well in the last month.

The seventh race is a division of the fifth race, also with nine first-time starters. Million Bound, a $55,000 yearling purchase trained by Juan Aleman, and Transcendeur, trained by Monty Arrossa, had notable workouts in April.

The allowance race for 3-year-olds drew a field of seven. Sounds Good, third in the James Smith Handicap at 350 yards on April 5, will start from the inside post.

In recent weeks, Los Alamitos has been popular with bettors, who have a limited choice of races to follow during the coronavirus outbreak. Los Alamitos has raced without interruption this year on a Friday-through-Sunday basis, albeit without spectators present.

Last weekend, the track recorded three of its five highest all-time handle figures for the evening Quarter Horse and lower-level Thoroughbred meeting. Handle on the May 2 card reached $2.81 million, slightly less than the record of $2.84 million set April 25.