Kindergarten Lays the Foundation

By the end of tonight’s 11-race card at Los Alamitos, only 10 of 90 2-year-olds will still be in the running for the $361,000 Kindergarten Futurity on May 18, the first leg of the Los Alamitos Bonanza. The track will award a $1-million bonus to any horse sweeping the Kindergarten, the Ed Burke Memorial Futurity on July 27 and the Los Alamitos Million on Dec. 13.

Trainer Jaime Gomez, who has won the Kindergarten the last two years for owner Dutch Masters III with Sassy Smith and Secret Card, will be a busy man tonight. He has entered 22 horses in the trials and it would be a major upset if he did not have multiple qualifiers. His top contenders include Coup Of Corona, Great Tip, Ponderosa Ruby, Strawfly Te, Flys R Streakin and Suzy Cartel. The entire card consists of trials; each is run at 300 yards.

The picks: 1. Female Friend. 2. Red Lipstick. 3. Morning Snow. 4. Ponderosa Ruby. 5. Doreme Fasolasi Win. 6. Throwin A Fit. 7. Flys R Streakin. 8. Night Lines. 9. A Royal Of Class. 10. Lonely Moon Sign. 11. Suzy Cartel.

Four! Let’s single Female Friend in the first, use Red Lipstick, Under My Wing and Coup Of Corona in the second, Morning Snow, Great Tip, Sum Special Strawfly and Whispering Lies in the third and Ponderosa Ruby, Stel Corona and Scuba Steve in the fourth.

Shots in the dark: Strawfly Te will be getting Lasix in the fifth for Gomez after disappointing at 1-2 in his debut. Shenoshezroyal also gets Lasix for Gomez in the sixth after hopping in the air in her debut on April 12.

Post time: 6:30 p.m.

On the Net: For entries and results from Los Alamitos, visit: www.latimes.com/horseracing/