The Los Alamitos Futurity on Saturday looks like a battle between two trainers with multiple Kentucky Derby victories, both on the lookout for more.

Bob Baffert – with six Derby wins – has 4-5 morning-line favorite Litmus Test (Juan Hernandez riding) as well as 5-1 Blacksmith (Kazushi Kimura) and 5-1 Provenance (Kyle Frey) in the $200,000, Grade II Los Al Futurity.

Doug O’Neill – with two Derbies – has 7-2 Acknowledgemeplz (Armando Ayuso), a ridgling trying to confirm he’s star material for owners Janie Buss, of the Lakers family, and Mark Davis, a San Diego electric power company president and restaurant owner.

“This is the time of year when you get a nice 2-year-old, turning 3, and you wake up dreaming of roses,” said O’Neill, who is going on 10 years since Nyquist (2016) joined I’ll

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