Top Qualifying Time Gives So Significant an Edge

So Significant, the fastest qualifier, and nine other 3-year-old fillies will race tonight in the $143,200 La Primera Del Ano Derby at 400 yards.

Trained by Concepcion Balderrama for owner Esmeralda Flores, So Significant, a Texas-bred daughter of Relegate, won her trial by a neck, completing the 400 yards in 19.86 seconds. It was her third win in 10 starts.

Feet Of Flames didn’t run as fast in her trial (20.02) but won easier than did So Significant. The Corona Cartel filly won by 1 3/4 lengths.

The picks: 1. Run Florence Run. 2. Too Excessive. 3. Cruisin Thru Traffic. 4. Joan. 5. La Chica Chickie. 6. On A Nitro High. 7. Rodania Arbi. 8. No Such Thing. 9. Feet Of Flames. 10. Rate Me Royal.

Four! Run Florence Run in the first, Zipolator, Doinitforpleasure and Too Excessive in the second, Someone In Need, First By Magic, Rosie Is Red and Cruisin Thru Traffic in the third, and La Sentella and Joan in the fourth.

Shots in the dark: Corona Road Runner gets jockey Joe Badilla Jr. for her debut in the fifth. Sign N On steps up a level in the sixth.

Post time: 6:30 p.m.

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