LOS ALAMITOS, CA—APRIL 24, 2019—A pair of events for 2-year-olds kick off a big racing weekend at Los Alamitos on Friday night. The eight-race card starts at 6 p.m. Friday's action will see juveniles competing in races five and seven.

The weekend action then has top older horses in the Grade 3 Kaweah Bar Handicap on Saturday followed by a great night of trials to the Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity on Sunday.

Reliance Ranches LLC’s Needs No Intro, a $125,000 purchased at the 2018 Ruidoso Yearling Sale, heads a field of nine in the seventh race. To be ridden by Ruben Castro for trainer Mike Robbins, Needs No Intro is by One Famous Eagle and out of Separate Fire, the 2011 champion 2-year-old filly. She won that year's Grade 1 Kindergarten Futurity and the Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity. Sired by Walk Thru Fire, Separate Fire is the dam of Separatefromothers, the winner of the 2018 Cowboy St. Futurity.

Owned by Blanchard, Bryant, Hubbard & Lewis, Budderlicous is another top contender here. Purchased for $86,000 at the Ruidoso Yearling Sale, the Utah-bred gelding by Corona Cartel is out of Budder Think Twice, a three-time winner who qualified to the 2015 Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity and was second to Phoebes Dynasty in the Restricted Grade 1 Governor’s Cup Futurity. Ed Allred's Close To It also figures to challenge. He's a full brother to 2017 Grade 1 Golden State Million Futurity finalist Unblemished.

Six 2-year-old fillies will debut in the fifth race on Friday night. The field will be headed by Kent Kleinknecht’s homebred Movie Star K, an Oklahoma-bred filly by Kiss My Hocks and out of Scared, who posted the seventh fastest of 45 works on April 6 when working :12.30 from the gate. Scared, a winner of seven races and $107,195, won the Grade 3 Rheudasil Handicap in 2000 and was third in the Grade 1 Heritage Place Derby in 1999. She’s the dam of Grade 2 stakes winner Pool ($438,689), who also finished second in the Grade 1 Texas Classic Futurity and third in the Grade 1 Sam Houston Futurity in 2007.

Owned and bred by Dr. Steven Burns, Javelina Cantina is another top contender after recording fifth fastest of 37 drills (:12.5) on April 13. The Foose filly is out of Little Talks ($568,897), who won stakes races at Los Alamitos in 2015, ’16 and ’17. She captured the Golden State Million Futurity in ’15 and followed it by winning the PCQHRA Breeders Derby during the following year. Her final career start as a 4-year-old was a victory in the Denim N Diamonds Handicap. Juvenile Cantina is her first foal.

Ed Allred purchased the Favorite Cartel filly Wambui for $50,000 at the 2018 Los Alamitos Equine Sale. Trained by Scott Willoughby, Wambui will also debut in this race. Her mother is Babe On Fire, out of the outstanding broodmare Babe On The Fly. Babe On Fire qualified to the 2014, Grade 3 La Primera Del Ano Derby. She’s a full sister to stakes winners Fly Thru The Fire, JM Specialwynn, Wrap You Up, and Just Walk By. The field will be completed by SC South Sixteen, One Royal Moonlight and Like Her So.

In addition, the red-hot Unobtainable will go after his sixth straight victory in the third race. Trained by Angela Aquino, the 4-year-old finished 2018 with four straight wins before scoring in his 2019 debut on March 30. The card includes a competitive allowance test headed by 2017 Champion of Champions finalists Da One Two Special and recent allowance winners Devil In A Blue Suit and Voulez Wagon.

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