Eastex to Lead El Primero Derby Trials
All-American Futurity winner Eastex, history’s richest 2-year-old race horse, will begin his 3-year-old campaign tonight at Los Alamitos Race Course as one of 28 colts and geldings competing in the El Primero Del Ano Derby trials.
The 400-yard El Primero Del Ano Derby, which has an estimated purse of $270,000, will be run on Saturday, January 12. The 10 fastest qualifiers from tonight’s three trial divisions will comprise the field.
Though the first three finishers in last month’s $706,000 Golden State Futurity will compete in the trials, most of the attention will be focused on Eastex, who was third in the Golden State.
Eastex finished the year with earnings of $1,573,622 after winning 10 of 14 races as a 2-year-old. He won both the $2.5 million All American Futurity and the $1 million Dash For Cash Futurity before closing out the year with the third in the Golden State.
Eastex will be the heavy favorite to win the third and final division of tonight’s trials that will be run as the seventh race.
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