Candy Blood is one of several graded stakes winners entered in an allowance featured on Saturday night at Los Alamitos.

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LOS ALAMITOS, CA—AUGUST 29, 2024—Grade 1 winners Candy Blood and You Can Run, plus Grade 2 winner Hes Chickless, will headline a star-studded allowance feature on Saturday night at Los Alamitos.

A field of eight will be in action in this $14,400 allowance event at 350 yards. The field also features stakes winners El Aventurero and Space Flight. Nine races are on tap, with the first post set for 7:05 p.m.

Bred by Rick Sumner and owned by Sumner and Dunn Ranch, Candy Blood is a classy performer and a participant in the 2021 Champion of Champions, where he finished fourth as a 3-year-old to two-time winner Apollitical Pence.

He had a great start to his 2022 campaign, winning the Grade 1 Dee Raper Sooner Stakes at Remington Park and then running sixth to Danjer in the Grade 1 Debbie Schauf Remington Park Championship. That was his final start of the year before racing just once in 2023. He made his 2024 debut at Remington Park, finishing out of the money in the Grade 2 Eastex Stakes.

Candy Blood now lands at Los Alamitos, looking to regain his glory days of a few years ago. The gelding by Apollitical Blood won the Z Wayne Griffin Stakes 2021 before running the Champion of Champions at 440 yards.

Monty Arrossa, who trained him then, will saddle him for this allowance event with Jesus Rios Ayala up. Candy Blood enters this event after posting a 350-yard gate work in 18.3 on August 3.

Steve Burns’ You Can Run, winner of the 2022 Go Man Go, has had a renaissance year in 2024. Lightly raced in 2023, You Can Run has already made five starts this season, winning three of them, including the Grade 3 Kaweah Bar Handicap.

He’s finished out of the money versus stakes rivals in his last two outings, but he fits nicely with this strong based on his current form.

Jeryl Hartley’s Hes Chickless, one of the top older stallion prospects on the grounds, is a multiple-stakes winner in his career and the runner-up to You Can Run in the Kaweah Bar. The son of Hes Relentless won the Grade 2 El Primero in 2023. He also won the A Ransom Handicap last December on the way to being named the PCQHRA Moonist Award winner for his durability and success on the track in high-caliber races in 2023.

Here's the field from the rail out: Fly Over, El Aventurero, You Can Run, Normandy, Space Flight, Hes Chickless, Candy Blood, and Up For Everything.