The Los Alamitos Futurity is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds run over a distance of one and one sixteenth miles (8+1⁄2 furlongs) on the dirt held annually in early December at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, California.
The inaugural running of the event was on 29 November 1981 as the Hollywood Futurity and was won by Stalwart whose $365,805 winner's share was one of the largest in the history of American racing.
[4] The 1989 winner Grand Canyon won his fourth straight event and was undefeated winning by 6+1⁄2 lengths in a fastest time ever set by a two-year-old of 1:33 flat.
[6] The winner of the event in 2014 the 3/5 odds-on favorite Dortmund broke the Los Alamitos track record for the 1+1⁄16 miles distance.
[8] Six Futurity starters have gone on to win the Kentucky Derby: Gato Del Sol (1982), Ferdinand (1986), Alysheba (1987), Thunder Gulch (1995), Real Quiet (1998), and Giacomo (2005).
Colts that won this event and went on to take US Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse honors include Roving Boy (1982), Declan's Moon (2004) and Shared Belief (2013).