2023 Los Alamitos Futurity odds, horses, field: California-based insider offers best bets for Kentucky Derby prep

Trainer Bob Baffert will look to win the Los Alamitos Futurity for the 14th time when he sends out two horses in the 2023 Los Alamitos Futurity on Saturday at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, Calif. Baffert's 13 wins are the record by a large margin. (D. Wayne Lukas is second with four.) On Saturday, Baffert goes for No. 14 with Coach Prime and Wynstock. Coach Prime has been installed as the 2-1 morning-line favorite in the Los Alamitos Futurity odds, while Wynstock is a 5-1 shot in the field of six. Post time for the Kentucky Derby prep is 7:28 p.m. ET.

With several accomplished horses set to enter the starting gate on Saturday, you'll want to see what Santa Anita-based racing reporter and analyst Michelle Yu has to say before making any Los Alamitos Futurity picks. Join SportsLine here to see who she's picking!

Few people in racing are as well-connected as Yu. An on-air host and reporter who has provided racing analysis for TVG, HRTV and the Breeders' Cup, Yu has spent a lifetime in racing. Prior to her television career, she worked for trainers Steve Asmussen and Ron Moquett. She also is married to Santa Anita-based trainer Ryan Hanson.

Yu also has tremendous handicapping chops. In a wide-open Kentucky Derby in 2021, she gave out Medina Spirit, who crossed the finish line first, as the winner at 12-1. In Pool 5 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager last year, she suggested a play on All Other 3-Year-Olds, which cashed at a whopping 18-1 when Rich Strike won the Derby.

Since the end of February, she has crushed the Saudi Cup, riding a 15-1 winner, nailed Derma Sotogake to win the UAE Derby and hit the exacta in the Santa Anita Derby. She has hit the exacta in the Preakness Stakes and Hollywood Gold Cup and had both the winner and exacta in the Summertime Oaks and the Prince of Wales's Stakes. And in July, she smashed the Haskell Stakes for a $663 score, hitting 12-1 winner Geaux Rocket Ride as well as the exacta.

Now, Yu has handicapped the 2023 Los Alamitos Futurity horses, made her picks and constructed her bets. Join SportsLine here to see them!

One surprise: Yu is low on the chances of Stronghold, the third choice at 3-1. "He was the runner-up to the ultra impressive Nysos in the Bob Hope, but Stronghold was well beaten there and beat only two home," Yu told SportsLine.

Moreover, Yu's top pick is a horse who has "has shown to be versatile." She is including this horse in her 2023 Los Alamitos Futurity bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see her picks before locking in any of your own.

So who wins the 2023 Los Alamitos Futurity? What does Yu think of every horse in the race? And how has she constructed her wagers? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Michelle Yu's 2023 Los Alamitos Futurity picks and horse-by-horse analysis, all from the Santa Anita-based insider who has been red-hot all year!