Jones Is Going for the Gusto

Leading trainer Paul Jones will send out five horses in the two stakes being run on tonight’s card.

In the $10,000 Carson Pass Stakes, Jones will saddle Judys Cash and likely favorite Miami Moon Dust, then he’ll send out Sum Special Straw- fly, I Ought To Be First and Dealadash in the $26,650 Vandys Flash Handicap.

Owned by Jones and Bob Grimes, Miami Moon Dust, a 4-year-old paint gelding, has won five of seven in 2003 and has been the runner-up in his two losses. Besides Judys Cash, he will have four other opponents in the 400-yard Carson Pass.

Sum Special Strawfly is the most accomplished of the Jones trio in the 400-yard Vandys Flash. A 3-year-old Strawfly Special gelding, he has won six of 17 and earned $237,609 for owners James Azevedo and Charles Boyles.

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The picks: 1. Mighty Advance Man. 2. Miami Moon Dust. 3. Bala Bev. 4. Swedish Sights. 5. El Plebe. 6. First By Magic. 7. Nicoles Chick. 8. Sum Special Strawfly. 9. Watching The Pie.

Four! Use Mighty Advance Man and Tin Mad Dog in the first, single Miami Moon Dust in the second, A Cold Corona, Rompnred, Bala Bev, Hay Its Easy and El Quinto Go in the third and Swedish Sights, Spring Bold and Fairly Fast in the fourth.

Shots in the dark: Sky Dive gets jockey Ramon Sanchez for her local debut in the fifth. Chicks Takin Cash steps up after a claim by trainer Tom Bazley in the sixth.

Post time: 7:15 p.m.

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