LOS ALAMITOS : Breeders Classics to Top 12-Race Program

The Quarter Horse Breeders Classics--eight stakes races worth more than $500,000--will highlight Saturday night’s 12-race program at Los Alamitos.

The main event will be the Grade I $172,000 Breeders Championship Classic which will showcase World Champion See Me Do It facing the million-dollar mare Dash For Speed and four other rivals. The Classic will be the ninth race on the program and will be contested over 440 yards.

The Championship Classic could go a long way in determining the 1990 World Champion as 1989 champion See Me Do It will face two-time champion Dash For Speed.

See Me Do It has won 15 of her 18 lifetime starts and $884,833. The daughter of On A High capped a perfect six-for-six season in 1989 by defeating older horses in the Grade I Champion Of Champions at Los Alamitos. After her perfect season, See Me Do It was voted World Champion Quarter Horse.

Dash For Speed has won 21 of her 28 starts with earnings of $1,094,066. The 5-year-old daughter of Dash For Cash was awesome in the summer at Los Alamitos, winning the Anne Burnett Handicap in a track record performance and returning to the winners’ circle in the Los Alamitos Championship.

Heisajoy and Jazzin Hi could play spoiler’s roles in the Classic.

Heisajoy is fresh from a win in the Inaugural Handicap at Los Alamitos on Oct. 26, covering 350 yards in a quick 17.57 seconds.

Jazzin Hi won the Vessels Maturity this summer and was a fast closing second to Dash For Speed in the Los Alamitos Championship.

The six-horse field from the rail out, with jockeys in parentheses: Tee Roy Reb (Steve Treasure), Wicked Dash (Luke Myles), See Me Do It (Larry Layton), Jazzing Hi (Bruce Pilkenton), Heisajoy (James Lackey), and Dash for Speed (Kip Didericksen). All starters will carry 122 pounds.

The lineup for the Breeders Classics races is as follows: The $31,000 Grade II Sophomore Classic for 3-year-olds at 400 yards will be the fourth race followed by the $18,690 Grade III Breeders Classic Freshman at 350 yards. The $30,275 Pacific Classics Derby at 400 yards will be the sixth race with the Grade I $47,580 Breeders Sprint Classic at 350 yards the seventh race. Fillies and mares will meet in the $48,720 Breeders Distaff Classic at 400 yards followed by the Grade I $172,000 Championship as the ninth race. The Grade I $130,100 Juvenile at 400 yards will be the 10th race followed by the 870-yard Grade III $24,020 Breeders Marathon Classic.