Los Alamitos cancels Saturday racing due to storm forecasts

Los Alamitos Race Course has canceled its Saturday card in anticipation of rain, the Orange County track announced Friday morning.

Los Al, which holds quarter-horse and thoroughbred races on weekend nights, isn’t running Sunday in observance of Easter.

Santa Anita said Thursday it had canceled Saturday and Sunday afternoon racing, the fourth time inclement weather has upset the Arcadia track’s schedule during the season that opened Dec. 26. Those races will be made up with an extra card next Thursday and added races Friday through Sunday. Saturday, April 6, features the $750,000, Grade I Santa Anita Derby.

Santa Anita is running Friday, March 29.

Storms are predicted Saturday and Sunday throughout Southern California.