Fastest qualifier Beach Walk will be looking to win the $430,000 Los Alamitos Oaks on Saturday.

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LOS ALAMITOS, CA–MARCH 20, 2025–Gentry Farms will be represented by two tremendous fillies led by fastest qualifier Beach Walk when the famed racing operation looks to win the Grade 1 $430,000 Los Alamitos Oaks for the first time at Los Alamitos on Saturday night. First post for the 8-race program is 6 p.m.

Gentry Farms will also be represented by Bold N Beautiful to give the Kentucky based farm with a pair of star performers in the 400-yard race. Gentry Farms has been fortunate to campaign and own many of the top mares in the Quarter Horse racing industry.

Since 2000, Gentry Farms have been represented at Los Alamitos by the likes of AQHA champions Kiss Thru Fire and Fearless Moon plus standouts like College Scandal, Heartbeat, In My Heart, Ohana Spirit, Separate Heart, Fovee, and Fredaville.

Go back to the 1990s and earlier and the Gentry family has had the likes of Such An Easy Effort, Fearless Freda, Fodice, Easy Kiss and many more.  They also bred the legendary mare Dasha Freda, the dam of 2015 World Champion Heza Dasha Fire.

Beach Walk and Bold N Beautiful are poised to follow on the great tradition of Gentry-owned fillies and mares. Beach Walk was wonderful on the track as jockey Martin Arriaga piloted to the top qualifying time of 19.929.

Trained by Juan Aleman, the filly by Freighttrain B and out of the Tres Seis filly Heartbeat, Beach Walk won her trial by a half-length while defeating a solid field that produced Oaks finalists Call Her Perfect and Elizabeth Alexandria.  Starting from post number seven, Beach Walk will enter the Oaks final with a record of three wins and five seconds from nine total starts.

“I had the pleasure of training (Beach Walk’s) mother and a lot of her daughters,” Aleman said. ” Heartbeat was a real fast filly with a lot of heart. She’s just passed it on to her daughter. They have a lot of heart just like the name of their mother.”

Aleman and Arriaga also teamed up with Bold N Beautiful as was runner-up to second fastest qualifier Apolitical Chilitas the opening Oaks trials. Also sired by Freighttrain B, Bold N Beautiful is out of the mare Always Dreaming, who was a winner for Aleman at Los Alamitos and a finalist in the 2019 La Primera Del Ano Derby, a race that would become the Los Alamitos Oaks starting in 2020.

Bold N Beautiful finished as the third fastest qualifier to the Oaks and will now start from post number four with Eduardo Nicasio up. Her granddam is the great Fovee, a multiple graded stakes winner, who won the Grade 1 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap in 2011.

Owned by Licon Farm and Ranch LLC, Apolitical Chilitas is an experience Grade 1 finalist. She ran in both the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity and Grade 1 Golden State Million Futurity, but her best effort was her solid trial victory for the Oaks. 

Bred by Omar Paredes, the filly by Apollitical Jess posted a hard-fought nose victory in the trials for trainer Jose Flores with Cruz Mendez up from post number one. She’ll start from post number five in the Oaks final.

“She’s done some great things for us,” Flores said. “She qualified to both of those great futurities here. The one thing about her is that she’s always so valiant and tries her heart out. She’s now showing what she can be. I love her and I think she’s due for a lot of great things in her future.”

The field from the rail out is as follows: Shaken Goin On, Elizabeth Alexandria, Up To Party, Bold N Beautiful, Apolitical Chilitas, Streakin Sis, Beach Walk, Call Her Perfect, Hott Temptation, and Powerful Wise Lady.

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