HALL OF FAME Class of 2022
Dr. Ed Allred, Indian Charlie, and Cee’s Tizzy will be inducted into the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Hall of Fame
DR. ED ALLRED hen Hollywood Park closed in 2013 and the California Toroughbred racing industry needed more stabling, Dr. Ed Allred was there. When the Toroughbred industry needed workers’ compensation help, Allred was there. And when pandemic restrictions threatened to derail the 2020 Fasig-Tipton California yearling sale, Allred was there. Tough many know Allred from his incredible success in the Quarter Horse racing industry and his operation of Los Alamitos primarily as a Quarter Horse venue, he has been essential to the Toroughbred industry as well. He has stepped up numerous times with Los Alamitos’ facilities to help. Allred also has bred and raced many successful California-bred Toroughbreds. Te California Toroughbred Breeders Association, of which he is a member, is honoring Allred by inducting him into the CTBA Hall of Fame, not only for his accomplishments as an owner/breeder but also for his assistance to the entire industry. Allred learned to love racing initially through visits to Santa Anita with his stepfather and grandmother. An early trip to Los Alamitos began his love of Quarter Horse racing, a sport where Allred has earned just about every accolade imaginable. He has been the champion Quarter Horse breeder 13 times and champion owner six times. He raced 1971 world champion Charger Bar in partnership, and he bred champion Separatist. Allred is a member of the American Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame, and he is Quarter Horse racing’s 32
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Ed Allred, right, with trainer Art Sherman, after California Chrome’s Winter Challenge Stakes victory at Los Alamitos
all-time leading owner and breeder. Allred breeds Quarter Horses and Toroughbreds at his Rolling A Ranch in Atascadero. He once told this magazine that “I don’t breed out of California, ever.” His Toroughbred homebreds include the Unusual Heat mare Warmth, from whom he bred North County Guy, winner of the 2021 Unusual Heat Turf Classic Stakes Presented by City National Bank for owners Nancy Messineo and Bruce Sands. Allred purchased a half-interest in Los Alamitos in 1990 with the help of close friend R.D. Hubbard, and Allred became the track’s sole owner in 1998. He built the track into one of the powerhouses of the Quarter Horse industry, home to the prestigious Champion of
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Champions (G1) and Los Alamitos $2 Million Futurity (G1). When the need for stabling and racing arose through the demise of Hollywood Park, Allred not only stepped in with a plan for year-round stabling at Los Alamitos, he expanded the track to accommodate Toroughbreds. Los Alamitos has a unique fexibility, able to host daytime Toroughbred races with a nearly onemile oval while still ofering the smaller fve-furlong confguration for nighttime Quarter Horse races. Los Alamitos hosts year-round Quarter Horse racing, as well as two short Toroughbred meetings. Several Cal-bred stakes are ofered annually at Los Alamitos, including the King Glorious Stakes and Soviet Problem Stakes for 2-year-olds
