A rich weekend at Los Al

A top-quality field of older quarter horses will get together in the $600,000 Champion of Champions on Saturday night at Los Alamitos, but the race is only the second-richest Grade I there this weekend.

Ten 2-year-olds will race tonight in the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, the richest race in the 56-year history of the track and the richest race run in California since the Breeders’ Cup was held at Santa Anita in 2003.

No Secrets Here, who has already won more than $1.1 million this year, thanks primarily to his victory in the All American Futurity on Sept. 4 at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico, is the 8-5 favorite on Ed Burgart’s morning line for quarter horse racing’s only guaranteed $2-million futurity.

Burgart, a crack quarter horse handicapper and longtime track announcer at Los Alamitos, says the field for the Los Alamitos Two Million is the best he has seen in any futurity.

Owned by breeder Vessels Stallion Farm LLC and Benny Rosset, and trained by Paul Jones, No Secrets Here, a son of First Down Dash, has won four of seven.

In his first race since a neck victory over a sloppy surface in the All American, No Secrets Here won his trial for the Two Million by 3 1/4 lengths. His final time of 19.49 seconds for the 400 yards meant he was the second-fastest qualifier when the trials were run Nov. 24.

Top honors went to another son of First Down Dash. Fdd Dynasty, owned by Vessels, Pat Guthrie and Billy Smith, and trained by Mike Joiner, won in 19.47 seconds for his fifth win in six starts.

The 3-1 third choice, the California-bred Fdd Dynasty will break from the outside under jockey G.R. Carter.

In his last Futurity appearance, Fdd Dynasty had to settle for third as the 3-2 favorite in the Golden State Million on Nov. 4. He was beaten by Jess You And I and Blues Girl Too, both of whom will be running tonight.

“Fdd Dynasty got away bad in the trials to the Golden State Million and he had to run a big race just to qualify,” Smith said. “Mike thought it might have taken a bit too much out of him. It’s not that Fdd Dynasty was flat, but he just did not have the acceleration he had earlier in the year.”

Jess You And I, owned by breeder Double Bar S Ranch LLC, is the 2-1 second choice and is looking to remain unbeaten in six starts for trainer Jaime Gomez. Blues Girl Too, who will break from the rail, has won four of six and has been second in her two losses.

In Saturday’s Champion of Champions, run at 440 yards, Apollitical Time, the streaking 4-year-old Apollo mare, is the 9-5 morning line choice. Owned by Juan Alberto Tirado Lizarraga and trained by Juan Aleman, she has won five in succession and lost for the only time this year when she was beaten by a head by Texas Chatterbox in the Charger Bar Handicap on Jan. 7.

Saul Ramirez Jr. will become the latest to ride Apollitical Time. She had been ridden by Ramon Sanchez, but he will be aboard Wave Carver in the Champion of Champions, so a switch to Alex Bautista was made before she won the Z. Wayne Griffin Directors Trial on Nov. 18.

Bautista, however, was suspended for 30 days after failing to show for his mounts Nov. 30, and that opened the door for Ramirez.

Besides Wave Carver, the sensational 3-year-old Jones trains for Vessels Stallion Farm, Vaughn Cook, Dan Lucas and Gary Muller, the Champion of Champions field includes, among others, 2004 world champion Be a Bono, Country Chicks Man, Gold Medal Jess and Blazin Fire.

Both the Two Million Futurity and the Champion of Champions are part of a pick four that will span three days. The other two races in the sequence are the Los Alamitos Juvenile Invitational, which will be run tonight, and Sunday’s Southern California Derby.

bob.mieszerski@latimes.com