RACING ROUNDUP : Set To Go Looking for Her Third Straight Triumph

Set To Go will be be looking for her third straight triumph when she tackles Doodlin and five others in the $15,000 Free For All pacing feature Friday night at Los Alamitos.

The eighth-race main event will find the best-pacing fillies and mares on the West Coast at 1 1/4 miles.

Set To Go, a highly regarded mare from Australia, may have a slight edge because she has raced long distances in her homeland.

In post position order, the field for the $15,000 race: Ja Ja Fajasm, Peter Wrenn in the race bike; French Heritage, Marc Aubin; Gee Gee Gem, Ross Croghan; Ebony Glo, Ed Hensley; Doodlin, Rick Kuebler; Set To Go, Jim Morand, and Miss Surmo, Tim Maier.

First post Friday will be 7:30 p.m.

Hunch players scored at Los Alamitos Wednesday night as David’s Cupid got the job done on Valentine’s Day.

Prakum won the race but was disqualified for failure to lose ground after breaking stride around the far turn, so the victory went to David’s Cupid, driven by Tim Maier. She paid $12.60 to win.

Ogden M. Phipps’ Lost Opportunity put on a strong finish along the rail and overtook the favored In Measured Beat to win the Cupid purse by 1 1/2 lengths at New York’s Aqueduct on Wednesday.

Lost Opportunity, 117, was ridden by Mike Smith.

The win was the first in two starts this year for Lost Opportunity, who covered the mile and 70 yards on the fast track in 1:42 2/5.

Lost Opportunity and entry-mate Aloetta, who finished third, paid $11.80, $2.60 and $2.20. In Measured Beat paid $2.60 and $2.10.

Meanwhile, Sportsman’s Park will open the city’s 1990 Chicago thoroughbred racing season Friday with a 74-day meeting that ends May 8.

Arlington International Racecourse follows immediately with a 134-day session from May 9 through Oct. 8. Hawthorne takes over for the balance of the year with a 75-day meeting.

Balmoral Park, the far south suburban track, will operate for 42 days, mostly at night and on Tuesdays, when Arlington is dark.

Sportsman’s will offer the Super Trifecta, a $2 bet requiring horseplayers to select the 1-2 finishers in the fourth race and the 1-2-3-4 finishers in the fifth race in order.

Sportsman’s will hold 22 stakes, headed by the $300,000-added Illinois Derby on May 5. The Kentucky Derby, to be run the same day, will be simulcast at the track.

Other rich stakes include the $225,000-added National Jockey Club Handicap for older horses April 28 and the $250,000-added Sixty Sails Handicap for fillies and mares May 4.