Refrigerator Is Top Quarter Horse : Awards: Gelding won three stakes at Los Alamitos last year. Eight of the 10 divisional winners raced in Southland.

Refrigerator, who won three major races at Los Alamitos last year, was voted the 1992 World Champion Quarter Horse on Sunday by the American Quarter Horse Assn.’s Racing Committee.

Refrigerator won the Vessels Maturity, Los Alamitos Championship and Champion of Champions. The Champion of Champions victory last month clinched the title for the gelding, who was also voted champion aged gelding and champion aged horse.

Eight of the 10 divisional winners campaigned at Los Alamitos or Hollywood Park at some point during the year. Mega Dash, who won the Ed Burke and Kindergarten Futurity at Hollywood and Los Alamitos, was voted champion 2-year-old gelding. The other 2-year-old awards went to the filly Deceptively and the colt Dash Thru Traffic, both of whom campaigned at Ruidoso Downs, N.M. Deceptively, who was unbeaten in four starts, received the most votes for overall 2-year-old championship.

The 3-year-old divisional winners included the filly Corona Chick, the gelding Femmes Frolic and the colt Rare Form, who was also voted overall 3-year-old champion. Other older horse awards went to Six To Five, champion aged stallion, and Junos Request, champion aged mare. For the second consecutive year, Griswold was voted champion distance horse for his 870-yard victories.

All of the champions are expected to return to racing this year. Refrigerator, who is owned by Jim Helzer of Arlington, Tex., will start at Ruidoso Downs in the summer and race in California this fall.

Ed Allred, the president of the Horsemen’s Quarter Horse Racing Assn., which conducts quarter horse racing at Los Alamitos, was voted the owner and breeder of the year. Jockey Kip Didericksen and trainer Blane Schvaneveldt won their respective categories. Both Didericksen and Schvaneveldt worked with Refrigerator.