LOS ALAMITOS, CA—DECEMBER 22, 2021—Seven juveniles will make their final start as 2-year-olds in the featured $20,000 Holiday Handicap during the opening night of the 2021-2022 Los Alamitos season here on Sunday.

Ten races are on tap with the Holiday set as the final race on the card. First post is 5:15 p.m. (PST).

The field will be headed by four stakes winners led by the newcomer Mound Valley Eagle, who was moved up to first after the disqualifications in both the Beehive Futurity and Hadley Giles Futurity, and Jeffrey Rath’s Wave Burner, the Canadian Cup Futurity winner and third place finisher in the Alberta Bred Futurity.

Mound Valley Eagle is by leading second-crop sire One Fabulous Eagle and Wave Burner is a son of world champion Wave Carver.

The field will also include local stakes winners Lovely Evening and Up The Ladder, who like Wave Burner are trained by Scott Willoughby. Owned by Ed Allred, Lovely Evening won the Autumn Handicap two races ago, while stablemate Up The Ladder arrives after winning the Dream Secret Handicap for Quarter Horse racing’s all-time leading owner.

Connie Nutt and Turner Farms’ Jess Hez On Fire, winner of his trial to the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, is another top name in this race, which also features Ed Burke Million finalist Run By Your Cartel and the good looking runner God Luvs Cowboys.

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