LOS ALAMITOS, CA— APRIL 17, 2015— Howard Nichols’ Favorite Kiss, one of the most impressive 2-year-olds during morning works so far this season, will make her highly anticipated debut in Sunday’s sixth race, while 2012 Champion of Champions winner Rylees Boy returns to action in an allowance race in the later part of the card at Los Alamitos.

Trained by Paul Jones and to be ridden by Cesar De Alba, Favorite Kiss caught the attention of observers when covering 220 yards in :12 flat on March 28. The work was the fastest of 42 on that morning and one of the best looking drills this year.

“She looks like one of the best 2-year-olds in the barn,” Jones said.

The daughter of Favorite Cartel is out of The Goodbye Kisser, a winner of six of nine career starts. The Goodbye Kisser earned $283,110 in her racing career, while coming out on top in the PCQHRA Breeders Futurity and John Deere California Juvenile Challenge. She also ran second in the Los Alamitos Winter Derby. Jones trained both Favorite Cartel and The Goodbye Kisser with success.

Jones will be busy on Sunday night, as two of the top contenders in the second race for juveniles also hail from his stable. Jones will saddle the Pyc Paint Your Wagon colt Mr PYC To You and the Separatist colt Hatefulist. The latter is out of the 2004 AQHA champion filly Hardly Hateful, while the former is from the breeding stock of The Mixer Ranch. Another freshman to watch is the Washington-bred Ima Chicks Dream, a colt sired by the legendary stallion Chicks Beduino.

In the eighth race - a $11,325 allowance at 350 yards - the 10-year-old gelding Rylees Boy will make his third start of the season in search of his first victory of the year. Rylees Boy’s career record includes 22 wins in 53 starts and earnings of $1,565,564. Rylees Boy has only made four starts since running second ni the 2013 Champion of Champions. As previously mentioned, he became the oldest winner of the Champion of Champions when winning the race at the age of seven. Cesar De Alba will be aboard the Heza Motor Scooter gelding.

Jones will saddle another talented sprinter in this event in Another Storm. Owned by Jones in partnership with Manuel Guerrero, the Foose gelding won the Markel Stakes back in 2013, but has finished third in the James Smith Memorial Handicap and Governor’s Cup Derby since that stakes victory. He was fourth to Moonist in the Katella Handicap in his last start. Stanley Watkins’ Jiffy James, a Grade 1 stakes finalist in 2013 and 2014, also figures to be a force in this race. Charles Treece will saddle Jiffy James.

Courtesy of www.losalamitos.com.