The stewards at Los Alamitos pulled the old “Montreal Screwjob” (if you don’t know, google it) on Saturday, DQing Solomini out of the win in the Los Alamitos Futurity, and DQing the ‘capper out of a solid pick 4 ticket.

The stewards got the story the track wanted, with the horse named after the late travel employee backing into the Win. From the Los Al web site: McKinzie, named in honor of Brad McKinzie, Baffert’s close friend and longtime Los Alamitos executive who died Aug. 6, won the $300,000 Futurity via disqualification after Solomini, Baffert’s other entrant in the race, was cited by the stewards for interfering with Instilled Regard in deep stretch and was moved from first and placed third.

Solomini was clearly the best horse and going by the other two regardless. None of the three 2-year olds held a straight line, and it’s clear they could have taken McKinzie down too, for veering out into Instilled Regard, the worst contact in the race. I hope they all enjoyed collecting $3 in the Win pool.

Anyway, that’s my sob story for today. I’ll get those rat bastids from Los Al another day, and back the Brinks truck up as I carry the money out the back.

Meanwhile, keep Solomini on your Kentucky derby radar. He had a nice run in the race, hustled away from the gate settled back then wheeled wide in the stretch to make his run. I like that kind a tactical speed.

I used him in some future tickets from Pool 1 – I’ll tell you about those tomorrow.