Ab What A Runner Seeks to Join the Elite
Ab What A Runner, the 2-1 morning-line favorite, will try to make a prestigious short list tonight in the $500,000 Champion of Champions.
Ab What A Runner, a 3-year-old gray filly owned by Dennie and Kris Hill and trained by Bret Vickery, will be trying to become the third horse to win both the All American Futurity and Champion of Champions.
Easy Date, a filly who won the All American in 1974 and the Champion of Champions the next year, and Refrigerator, who won the All American in 1990 and followed with three victories in the Champion of Champions, are the only other horses to win both races.
The picks: 1. Wired To Win. 2. A Wild Ride. 3. Miss Saga. 4. Classic Turbo. 5. Bootleg And Susy. 6. Flying Sentinel. 7. Pencilmein. 8. Picasso Toll. 9. The Down Side. 10. The Money Train.
Four! Wired To Win and The Seth Bomber in the first, Seattle Minister, A Wild Ride, Tricky Beduino and Rise Together in the second, Miss Saga in the third and Royal American Queen, Classic Turbo and Give Me An Effort in the fourth.
Shots in the dark: Brite F X returns at the same level after a claim in the fifth. Rapidly Done Gone gets jockey Rodrigo Aceves for his Los Alamitos debut in the sixth.
Post Time: 6:30 p.m.
On the Net: For entries and results from Los Alamitos, visit: www.latimes.com/horseracing/
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