LOS ALAMITOS, CA—NOVEMBER 15, 2018—The rematch between Bill Hoburg's BH Lisas Boy and Darling Farms' champion Hold Air Hostage in the Grade 1, $250,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship will headline an outstanding racing program on Saturday at Los Alamitos.

Eight of the 10 races on the card are Quarter Horse stakes races with great field highlighting the popular Late Pick Four. First post time is 6 p.m.

BH Lisas Boy and Hold Air Hostage first met in the California Championship on August 11. The first half of the race was all Hold Air Hostage, as he held a daylight advantage until the 6-year-old veteran BH Lisas Boy kicked it into a higher gear. From there, the second half of the race belonged the son of Mighty Invictus, as he moved from fourth to third and eventually first to win his second stakes race of the year.

Ridden by Cesar De Alba, BH Lisas Boy had also won the Grade 1 Brad McKinzie Los Alamitos Winter Championship back in February. De Alba reunites with BH Lisas Boy after missing a couple of his races with an injury. He'll ride the winner of 19 races and $585,162 from post four.

Trained by Jaime Gomez and ridden by Rodrigo Sigala Vallejo, Hold Air Hostage will start from the outside post 10 while looking to add to his nine wins and $1,352,051 in earnings. The Apollitical Jess gelding enters this race after a fifth place in the Robert Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship.

Other top contenders in this event include Katies Easy Moves, fourth in a pair of Grade 1 races this season, and the Brazilian Challenge Championship winner Corona Jumpin MRL. The winner of this race will earn a provisional berth to the Grade 1, $600,000 Champion of Champions on December 15.

Led by Johnny Trotter's One Sweet Racy, 10 top distaffers race in the Grade 1, $100,000 AQHA Distaff Challenge. Runner-up to Hold Air Hostage in the 2017 All American Derby, One Sweet Racy won the California Distaff Challenge on August 12 and enters after running second in the Grade 1 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap to multiple stakes winner Jess Ravin. Turner Farms' One Hot Habit and local stakes winner Duck Dash N Go are among the other top contenders.

Vanessa Bartoo's Corona Ranger, winner of the Evangeline Downs Futurity, and Reliance Ranches' SC Vapor Trail, a stakes winner here last year, head the Grade 3, $150,000 Adequan Derby Challenge.

The Grade 2, $125,000 John Deere Juvenile Challenge will feature Wild West Futurity winner KR Hi Five, Hadley/Giles Futurity winner Jess Send It and Ron Hartley's Capitol Grille. Jess Send It is a full sister to Grade 1 futurity placed runner Jess Macho Corona, while Capitol Grille is a half-sister to Governor's Cup Derby winner Black Fryday.

Rare Ed will go after his second career win in the Grade 1, $100,000 Cox Ranch Distance Challenge. He won the sports' richest 870-yard race here during the 2016 Challenge.

The undercard stakes include Autumn Handicap winner Tac Me Up in the $25,000 Stotz Equipment Stakes for 2-year-olds and Twisted Sifter going after a nation's best eight wins in 2018 in the $25,000 Dreams Come True Ranch Stakes for sophomores. Top mares Maggie Durant and Tough To Figure will lead the $25,000 Stablewood Stakes.