LOS ALAMITOS, CA—MARCH 4, 2021—PCQHRA champion Apollitical Patty will make her first start for new owner Julianna Hawn Holt when she headlines the trials to the $427,500 Los Alamitos Oaks here on Saturday night.

Twenty-three sophomore fillies will be in action in the three trials with the runners with the 10 fastest times returning here on Saturday, March 27 for one of the nation’s richest races in this division.

In action for the Walker Family Trust and trainer Monty Arrossa, Apollitical Patty had a magical season in 2020. The daughter of Apollitical Blood won California’s richest horse race of the year, the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, and qualified to the Grade 1 Golden State Million Futurity. Hawn Holt, whose band of high-profile fillies and mares is among the nation’s best, acquired Apollitical Patty via a private purchase after the Two Million.

When asked how much Hawn Holt paid for the superstar filly, Arrossa had a simple answer.

“It was a lot,” Arrossa said. “Mrs. Hawn Holt has many great Quarter Horse fillies and mares and I feel that she added two outstanding ones in Apollitical Patty and Aint She Tempting.”

Hawn Holt had previously purchased Aint She Tempting before the Two Million final.

Apollitical Patty was the big winner on that night, while the Tempting Dash filly bumped early and finished seventh.

The two also met in the Golden State Million with Aint She Tempting delivering the better result, as she was second to Patty’s sixth in the final. Apollitical Patty, the PCQHRA champion 2-year-old filly, will be in action in the first trial, which is race six. Aint She Tempting will be in the last trial. Aint She Tempting won the Oklahoma Futurity and was second in the Heritage Place Futurity earlier this year.

The Oaks trials will also feature Parsons Family Limited Partnership’s Terrific Temper, who is one of the most athletically gifted fillies on the grounds. A graduate of the Two Million final, she was also the runner-up in the Ed Burke Million Futurity. Trained by Chris O’Dell and ridden by Eduardo Nicasio, Terrific Temper will be in action in the second trial.

Leah Carroll, who ran in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby, will also be in action in the opening heat.

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