Bookies Luck will stretch out to one mile for the first time as he aims for his third consecutive stakes win in the $100,000-guaranteed King Glorious Saturday at Los Alamitos.
Named in honor of the winner of the 1988 Hollywood Futurity and 1989 Haskell, the King Glorious is restricted to 2-year-olds bred or sired in California and is the main event on the next-to-last day of the Winter Thoroughbred meet.
Post time Saturday is 12 Noon. The King Glorious, which is the eighth of 10 races, is scheduled to be run at 3:28 p.m.
The Los Alamitos Racing Association will also offer a cash prize and as many as three seats to the 2018 National Handicapping Championship in Las Vegas with a live money contest Saturday.
Cost to enter the contest is $400. Of that amount, $100 will be placed in the contest prize pool with the remaining funds going towards a live-money wagering card.
Contestants must enter prior to 12 Noon Saturday. Players can enter the contest on track Friday, Dec. 15 on the mezzanine level of the grandstand between 1-3 p.m. and beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
Tournament races will include the entire card at Los Alamitos with permitted wagers including win, place, show, exactas and daily doubles beginning on races 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. Each entry must bet at least $50 on six races, but there is no wagering limit. For purposes of the contest, a Daily Double wager counts as one race.
The player with the highest bankroll at the end of the day will be declared the winner and the player with the second highest bankroll will be the runner-up.
The winner will receive 50% of the prize pool, which will be capped at $10,000. The remaining payoffs: 20% (2nd place), 15% (3rd place), 10% (4th place) and 5% (5th place).
There will be three spots to the 2018 NHC available if there are a minimum of 60 entrants in the contest. If less than 60, two berths will be awarded.
In the King Glorious, Bookies Luck will try a new game for owner-breeders Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Williams and trainer Jeff Bonde.
A son of Lucky Pulpit and the Johannesburg mare Book ‘em Babe, Bookies Luck comes off wins in the I’m Smokin at six furlongs and Golden State Juvenile at seven-eighths of a mile at Del Mar.
The dark bay has won half of his six starts and earned $214,649.
Lucky Romano, who finished third in the Golden State Juvenile, is a Lucky Pulpit gelding who has a win in five attempts for owner Michael Moran. Trained by Mark Glatt, Lucky Romano, who is out of the Memo mare Demo Memo, has earnings of $47,590.
Campaigner, the fourth-place finisher in the Golden State Juvenile, is 1-for-5 with earnings of $55,800 for owner-breeder Larry Stein. Steve Miyadi trains the Ministers Wild Cat gelding.
Out of the Good Journey mare Brave Journey, Campaigner is the lone King Glorious entrant who has raced previously at Los Alamitos. The chestnut finished second behind Uh Oh Baby in a state bred maiden race at 5 ½ furlongs Sept. 23 during the Los Angeles County Fair meet.
Intimidate will make his first start in Southern California for a partnership that includes RAM Racing LLC, James Eaton, Maria Hess and breeder Don Muldoon after going 2-for-3 over the Tapeta surface for trainer Bob Hess, Sr. at Golden Gate Fields.
A Vronsky colt out of the Perfect Mandate mare Perfect Hostess, Intimidate, won the first two starts of his career by a combined 8 ¼ lengths before finishing a troubled fifth – via disqualification – in the Golden Nugget Stakes Nov. 11. He’s earned $42,640.
Minoso stretches out for owner-breeder Rich Fontana and trainer Sean McCarthy after finishing in a dead heat for a maiden victory when 54-1 Nov. 11 at Del Mar.
The Council Member colt out of the Olympio mare Bella Queen has banked $21,145 in two starts.
Oh Man will be making his first start since finishing a distant fourth in an optional claimer Oct. 29 for owner Calvin Nguyen and trainer Richard Baltas.
The Angus colt out of the Flying Continental mare Rockeyhillcat has a win in six starts and earnings of $37,456. He broke his maiden Oct. 7 at six furlongs, finishing directly in front of a pair of next out graduates.
Trained by Vladimir Cerin for owners David and Holly Wilson, Royal Trump stretches out after finishing third in an optional claimer Nov. 23.
The Ministers Wild Cat gelding out of the Woodman mare Royal Woodman has one win in six starts and has banked $32,505.
From inside out, the field for the King Glorious Stakes: Royal Trump, Edwin Maldonado rides, 117 pounds; Intimidate, Mike Smith, 119; Minoso, Gary Stevens, 117; Lucky Romano, Tyler Baze, 117; Oh Man, Evin Roman, 117; Bookies Luck, Kent Desormeaux, 121 and Campaigner, Tiago Pereira, 117.
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