Meteoric Looking Good for Golden State Futurity

Meteoric, whose only loss in eight starts came in the All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs on Sept. 2, started a new winning streak Saturday night.

In the process, the 2-year-old earned the fastest qualifying time for the $733,950 Golden State Futurity, which comes up Nov. 2.

Owned by Dutch Masters III and trained by Lin Melton -- who had two others, Royal Miracle Dip and Twotimesthefly, qualify for the Futurity final -- Meteoric won his trial by three-quarters of a length. He completed the 400 yards in 19.67 seconds.

Besides the three Melton runners, the other qualifiers were First Place Queen, Corona Caliente, The Blues Man and Lotta Bang (all of whom are trained by John Bassett), Deefirst and Sum Special Strawfly (both of whom are trained by Paul Jones) and Toll The Cash, who will represent the Jaime Gomez barn.

Special Queen SA was scratched out of the fifth trial because of a cough.

The picks: 1. Comes A Storm. 2. Miss Sky Dasher. 3. Malibu Princess. 4. A Flyer. 5. Virlaka. 6. Fast Enough To Speed. 7. Aubrey Ren. 8. A Dash Of Apollo.

Four! Single the entry of Virlaka-Key Line in the fifth; use Fast Enough To Speed, the entry of Peggy Perfect-Tiffany Snow, Thru Grace and Splasy For Glory in the sixth; Famous Cartel and Aubrey Ren in the seventh; and Flying Sentinel, Corona Chaser, A Dash Of Apollo and Karat Snapper in the eighth.

Shots in the dark: Adans Baby Victory could improve in the second after a troubled debut. Flying Tapestry makes his first start for trainer Dan Luna in the fourth.

Post time: 7:15 p.m.

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