AQHA Champion 3-Year-Old Filly and 2025 PCQHRA Horse of the Year Shaken Goin On anchors an exceptional group of fillies and mares in Saturday night’s Grade 2, $75,000 Abigail Kawananakoa Handicap at Los Alamitos.

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By Orlando Gutierrez

CYPRESS, CA–JUNE 11, 2026–Fresh off a dominant, gate-to-wire victory in the Grade 2 Miss Princess Handicap, reigning AQHA Champion 3-Year-Old Filly and 2025 PCQHRA Horse of the Year Shaken Goin On anchors an exceptional group of fillies and mares in Saturday night’s Grade 2, $75,000 Abigail Kawananakoa Handicap at Los Alamitos.

The 350-yard dash promises to be a thrilling rematch of the Miss Princess, while bringing in elite veterans and sharp, ascending distaffers to challenge the reigning queen of the Orange County oval.

Owned by James Sills and AA Horse Racing Inc. and trained by Eddie Willis, Shaken Goin On made a triumphant 2026 debut in the Miss Princess, stopping the clock in a blazing :17.490. Breaking from post three that night under regular pilot Justine Klaiber, the daughter of Freighttrain B opened an immediate 3/4-length lead and coasted to a measured half-length victory. It was her fifth career stakes win at Los Alamitos, improving her lifetime record to 11 wins from 18 starts.

Looking to exact revenge is Larry and Bobbie Rice’s AJ Flawless, who staged a gritty, late-closing rally to finish second to the champion in the Miss Princess. Trained by Marc Jungers, the 4-year-old daughter of Apollitical Jess was making her first California start since 2024 and proved she can run with the absolute best in the division.

Adding serious depth to this $75,000 feature is Lex Fabrizio’s One Sweet Duck. The plucky 6-year-old mare proved she still has plenty of "fly" left in her on April 11, when she used her renowned gate speed to capture the $35,000 Virginia Hyland Stakes in a sharp :17.534. It was the 10th career win for the daughter of One Sweet Jess, who is on a remarkable run of winning five of her last six outings. She enters Saturday just $21,000 away from matching the $163,749 career earnings of her prolific dam, Duck Dash N Go.

The field also features a formidable pair of stablemates in Bold N Beautiful and Ohana Spirit. Both high-class mares look to rebound after testing Grade 1 water earlier this season when finishing sixth and eighth, respectively, behind two-time winner Rockin With Energy in the Grade 1 James Dreyer Charger Bar Handicap.

A deep contingent of sharp local runners rounds out the likely starters. Jose Luis Valdez’s Val Baby, second against males in the James Smith Memorial Stakes, the graded stakes placed mare Terra Fina and recent allowance winner Jo Lee all enter in strong form. They will be joined by intriguing wildcard Imm Beyond The Stars, a lightly raced newcomer making her local stakes debut after running second at the allowance level here on May 24. She previously raced at Turf Paradise where she finished fourth in the Spring Fling Stakes on March 21.

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