LOS ALAMITOS, CA—JULY 23, 2018—One of the most prestigious Quarter Horse racing nights of the year is on tap as the 19th running of California Breeders Champions Night will offer a full evening of stakes races on Saturday, July 28.

The racing action will be headed by the running of the $380,000 Governor’s Cup Futurity headed by Parsons Ranch’s fastest qualifier Parsons Rocket and Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity runner-up Striver. Chris O’Dell, who trains Parsons Rocket, will saddle five of the 10 horses in the Governors’ Cup Futurity.

The $203,000 Governor’s Cup Derby will be headed by 2017 AQHA champion J Fire Up, a winner in her derby trial on July 15. She’ll face a field headed by Fortuna Properties LLC’s Ditto Head, a multiple Grade 1 finalist and the owner of the fastest qualifying time to this race.

A full card of stakes will be contested as part of Champions Night. California Breeders Champions Night, which will once again serve as a showcase event for the finest California-bred runners in training. Featuring combined purses of approximately $960,000, the event is the product of joint cooperation between the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association and track management at Los Alamitos Race Course.

The Spencer L. Childers California Breeders Championship Handicap is the main event for 3-year-old and upward and will feature a purse of $100,000. Heza Dasha Fire, the 2015 AQHA World Champion, will make his 2018 debut while headlining the field in the Spencer Childers at 400 yards.

Others that could race in the Spencer Childers include Ed Allred’s He Looks Hot, the defending winner of this race, plus Lucky Seven Ranch’s Grade 1 winner Lotta Blues Man, Paul Blanchard and Dutch Masters III’s Katella Deli, A1A Racing LLC’s Tarzanito, and S & S Horses’s Royaltys Authority, winner of the Kaweah Bar Handicap earlier this year.

The $40,000 Matron Stakes has 15 mares nominated led by Grade 1 Charger Bar Handicap winner Kiddy Up Cowgirl, multiple Grade 1 stakes placed mare Jess Hawk from the barn of EG High Desert Farms, and Maggie Durant, who won this race last year.

Los Alamitos Cap Giveaway to be featured on July 28

The first 2,000 patrons will receive a free Los Alamitos logo cap with their paid nighttime admission on Champions Night. Limit is one per patron. The giveaway will begin at 5 p.m. Grandstand admission is only $3.

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Courtesy of www.losalamitos.com.