Dashing Knud Steps to Front, Center

Dashing Knud, extremely productive as a 2-year-old in 2000, will be trying to end a losing streak when he runs in tonight’s ninth race.

Dashing Knud, owned by Gordon Knudsen and Vessels Stallion Farm and trained by Danny Cardoza, has lost four in a row but will be favored to win the $12,900 allowance at 350 yards.

Dashing Knud, the winner of the Los Alamitos Million and Golden State and Ed Burke Memorial futurities in his first year of competition, will be ridden by Kenny Hart. He was second in the Kaweah Bar Handicap on April 6, his first race since July 27.

Six races earlier, Wynhurst, a 6-year-old thoroughbred gelding, will try for his fourth victory in a row.

Owned by Danny Scott and trained by Ray Thomas, Wynhurst will break from post two and will have five opponents at 41/2 furlongs.

He will be ridden by Ramon Guce.

It will not be an easy task for the son of Mt. Livermore because three other horses in the race are coming off victories. Easter Chief won on March 22, Solongrestsina won at 9-2 on March 30 and Ourenay scored a 7-1 surprise on April 13.

The picks: 1. Tam’s Rebelette. 2. Seldom Lies. 3. Wynhurst. 4. Dozen. 5. Rex Royal. 6. It Happens. 7. Sir Elton. 8. Big Mouth. 9. Dashing Knud.

Four! In the sixth, let’s use It Happens and Baltana, Sir Elton, Barbsbully and Splash Of Gucci in the seventh, Big Mouth, A S Demon and Contreras in the eighth and single Dashing Knud in the ninth.

Shots in the dark: Mister Really had a troubled beginning and now debuts for a new barn in the third while Feathered Friend is a win type (15 of 69 in his career) who could wake up in the fifth with the switch back to jockey Adolfo Rodriguez.

Post Time: 5:30 p.m.

On the Net: For entries and results from Los Alamitos, visit: www.latimes.com/horseracing/