After choosing quality over quantity at recent Los Alamitos thoroughbred meets, Juan Hernandez is going for more of both as the Orange County track opens a two-week run Friday.

California’s perennial leading jockey has two mounts Friday, including 9-5 morning-line favorite Voldemort in the allowance-level feature race, and two Saturday, 8-5 favorite Nimah in the $200,000, Grade II Starlet Stakes and 2-1 favorite Greenwich Village debuting in a maiden sprint.

That’s just the start.

“This meet I think I’m going to be there pretty much every day,” Hernandez said on the phone Thursday. “That way I keep the feeling of the horses and keep myself fit. (In the past) when I’m off for a week, when I come back I feel like I have to start over.”

Hernandez, 33, is coming off a rare disappointing me

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