
In addition to Quarter Horse racing, Los Alamitos also hosts Thoroughbred racing at the 4 ½ furlong distance. The premiere place to enjoy the races is the lavish Vessels Club, the track’s $10 million glass enclosed restaurant. Los Alamitos Race Course conducts racing on a Friday through Sunday basis for a total of 151 nights of racing each year. Wayne Lukas have used Los Alamitos Race Course as a stomping ground before establishing high-powered Thoroughbred racing operations. Over the year, famous horsemen like Bob Baffert and D. The winner of the Champion of Champions is usually named the American Quarter Horse Racing Association’s World Champion. Los Alamitos Race Course’s most famous race is the $750,000 Champion of Champions, which is regarded as Quarter Horse racing’s most prestigious race for older horses.

Any horse sweeping those three important futurities will earn an additional $1 million cash bonus. The Ed Burke Million, Golden State Million and Los Alamitos Two Million also make up the $1 million Los Alamitos Cash Bonanza, which serve as the track’s version of the Triple Crown. Other major events include the California Breeders Champions Night held in July and the AQHA Bank of America Racing Challenge held during odd-numbered years. The four million dollar races are the Ed Burke Million Futurity, Golden State Million Futurity, Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity and the Los Alamitos Super Derby. A bell boot upside down is a great fetlock sore prevention.

You might need to find the bell boot variety that has some fuzzy stuff on the cuff so rubs don’t happen. Los Alamitos Race Course is the home of four races worth $1 million or more. If your horse gets rubs on his fetlocks from laying down, get a thick pair of bell boots and put them on upside down for protection. Instead of neighbor against neighbor match races, horses at Los Alamitos annually race for purses that total a national Quarter Horse record of over $20 million. What started out as informal match races on the Vessels Ranch property in 1947 has grown into year-round Quarter Horse racing at the North Orange County track. If there needs to be a moral to this story, I guess it would be “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket if the basket is made out of twelve toothpicks and attached to a glue parachute, unless you’re going to drop the basket from a height greater than ten feet, in which case, you might be ok.Before there were Ducks and Angels in Orange County, California, there was Quarter Horse racing at Los Alamitos Race Course. The glue strings held up though, so I think that if I had dropped it from thirty feet, it would have had a pretty good chance of landing safely. The parachute didn’t catch the air until about a foot from the ground, and the toothpick basket was so flimsy that the egg didn’t stand a chance. I only used twelve toothpicks for the basket, definitely setting the class maximum for glue and minimum for toothpicks. Not only is the parachute made out of glue, the strings connecting it to the egg basket are made out of glue too. That’s a parachute made entirely out of dried glue. The idea was to build toothpick crumple zones around the egg such that the egg’s deceleration would be slowed enough that it wouldn’t crack. In our high-school physics class (a dozen years ago), our fun year-end project was to construct a container out of toothpicks and Elmer’s glue that could prevent an egg from cracking when dropped from a height of about ten feet.
