Adrian Aleman's A Famous Ribbon was a prompt even-money favorite in Saturday's 440-yard, $44,506 Bank of America Los Alamitos Championship Challenge (G2) at Los Alamitos Racecourse.

Prepped by Heath Taylor, A Famous Ribbon covered his quarter-mile trip in :21.841, and his margin of victory was a neck from Hes Judgeandjury. Jose Nicasio rode the 5-year-old son of One Famous Eagle, who earned the $23,144 winner's share of the purse from his fourth career stakes win and second graded stakes victory, as well as a berth in the October 26 Bank of America Challenge Championship (G1) at Albuquerque Downs.

A Famous Ribbon was bred in Texas by Weetona Stanley, and he was making his first start since June 15, when he ran fourth in the Willie Hickman Memorial Stakes (R) for Texas-breds at Sam Houston Race Park. His Sam Houston season also included a neck victory in the 440-yard, $75,000 Sam Houston Classic Stakes (G2) on May 10.

A Famous Ribbon led from start to finish in the Los Alamitos Championship Challenge despite encountering some early trouble. Taylor said that the sorrel gelding might make another start at Los Alamitos, perhaps in the August 25, 400-yard Go Man Go Stakes (G1), before the Challenge Championship in New Mexico.

"We’ll just have to see how the horse comes out of it and go from there,” the trainer said.

A Famous Ribbon was winning for the eighth time in 18 races and increasing his earnings to $199,571.

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