LOS ANGELES — Trainer Bob Baffert has won some incarnation of the Los Alamitos Futurity 13 times and he had three of the five horses in Saturday's Grade 2 $200,000 race at the Orange County track. So, it makes sense he would up the number to 14, especially since he had the heavy favorite Arabian Lion in the race.
But, in spite of what everyone figures will happen, they still run the races and in the end Baffert's former longtime assistant Tim Yakteen won the race as Practical Move pulled away in the stretch to win by 3 1/4 lengths.
The Los Alamitos Futurity, which started at Hollywood Park, has been the springboard to many great horses but Saturday it went to a horse winless in four starts.
