HORSE RACING / LOS ALAMITOS : Quarter Horse, Harness Officials Seek a Trade

Los Alamitos quarter horse and harness racing officials will seek permission to trade dates for this year during Friday’s meeting of the California Horse Racing Board.

Quarter horse officials want to trade their summer racing dates to the harness officials for fall dates, giving each meeting an extended run. In addition, quarter horse officials are seeking to lease summer dates to Bay Meadows.

“We made an agreement with the harness folks,” said Dr. Edward Allred, president of the Horsemen’s Quarter Horse Assn. at Los Alamitos.

Under terms of the proposal, a harness meeting beginning Feb. 8 would extend until the Orange County Fair in July. After the fair, a quarter horse meet would be held from August through January. Los Alamitos would also shift its traditional summer quarter horse dates to Bay Meadows.

Dash For Speed, who won the Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos Dec. 15, was voted 1990 world quarter horse champion by the American Quarter Horse Assn.

Dash For Speed won three graded stakes at Los Alamitos and finished her career with 22 victories in 30 starts and earnings of more than $1.2 million. The 6-year-old mare has been retired for breeding.

Trainer Blane Schvaneveldt, jockey Kip Didericksen and owner Dr. Edward Allred, all based at Los Alamitos, also were honored.

Other Los Alamitos-based winners: Jazzing Hi, older stallion; Tee Roy Reb, older gelding; Apprehend, 3-year-old gelding; Sweet N Special, 3-year-old filly; Special Project, 3-year-old colt; Takin On The Cash, 2-year-old colt; Quick Fun, 2-year-old filly; Refrigerator, 2-year-old gelding; and distance horse, Baychaino.