London Toby headlines the $75,000 Spencer Childers California Breeders Championship Handicap on Saturday night at Los Alamitos.

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LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JULY 24, 2025–A full night Quarter Horse racing action, including six Cal-bred stakes races headed by the Governor’s Cup Futurity and Governor’s Cup Derby, will headline the 26th edition of California Breeders Champions Night on Saturday at Los Alamitos. Purses for the nine-race program total $646,300 with the six stakes races on the card featuring a combined $610,000.                             

The festivities will kick off with a special cocktail hour for horse owners, breeders, trainers, jockeys and jockey agents in the Finish Line Room at Los Alamitos Race Course on Saturday beginning at 5:30 p.m.                   

The richest race of the night is the $255,000 Governor’s Cup Futurity (read related story) led by Travis and Wendy Saxton’s fastest qualifier El Dictator and Steve Burns’ French Valley, who was the runner-up in the Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity last month. Ten juveniles will be in action in this 350-yard event.                    

The $175,000 Governor’s Cup Derby (see related story) could be the race of the night thanks to a tremendous lineup that includes the powerful finisher Defending Champ, two-time graded stakes winner Up To Party, Grade 1 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity finalist Walking Tool, and EG High Desert Farms’ Favorite Jesshawk, who will look to sweep the Governor’s Cup Series after winning the Futurity last year. The Governor’s Cup Derby will be held at 400 yards.

The Restricted Grade 1 $75,000 Spencer Childers California Breeders Championship Handicap will include Ed Allred’s outstanding 7-year-old London Toby, as he looks to join Be A Bono as the only three-time winners of this race. If London Toby wins a third stakes race on this night, he’ll join champions A Ransom, Be A Bono and Quirky as the only three-time winners on Champions Night. The ageless 8-year-old Cattail Cove will also be in action as he’ll be going after his first ever Grade 1 stakes victory.                                                 

The $50,000 Rolling A Ranch Matron Stakes will be the talented Temple Court, a mare from the great family of Favorite Cartel and Remember Me Rose, as she looks to score her first stakes win after many top efforts. RDS Legacy Racing’s Deep Blue, winner of the Grade 2 Heritage Place Oaks for trainer John Stinebaugh, and the Adan Farias-trained Ecstatik, a surprise winner at 26-1 in the La Pacifica Handicap last year, are among the other top runners in this event.                                                                               

The two other stakes events on California Breeders Champions Night are the Sprint for 3-year-olds and up, and the Debutante for 3-year-old fillies. Allred’s Up For Everything, a four-time career winner and a recent starter in the Grade 1 Vessels Maturity, heads the Sprint Stakes, while the Debutante features Steve Burns and Michael Casselman’s Competent, who ran in the Grade 1 Golden State Million Futurity last year, plus other stakes runners in 2024 Governor’ Cup Futurity finalist Malynche and Vandy’s Flash Handicap starter See It Clearly.

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