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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2010
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DIXIE LOOKS TO FEAST ON FALLS CITY FOES
The Robert and Beverly Lewis Trust=s Distinctive Dixie (Fusaichi Pegasus) enters today=s GII Falls City H. with an admirable batting average of .500 beneath the Twin Spires, with three wins from six tries, including a 7-1 upset over Third Dawn (Graeme Hall) in the GII Chilukki S.going this track=s oneturn mile Nov. 6. Win or lose, plans call for the five-year-old to train on in 2011, which suits her trainer=s family just fine. AShe is getting better with age,@ offered Cincy Dollase, wife of trainer Wally Dollase. AWe knew that going in. The Fusaichi Pegasuses get better as they get older and with them it is mostly mental. Plan A is to race next year. The horses comefirst with the Lewises and they like to see their horses perDistinctive Dixie form.@ Striking Dancer Reed Palmer photo (Smart Strike), a winner on turf and victorious in the GII La Canada S. on the Santa Anita synthetic over the winter, scored her first win on the main track in her latest, coming from just off the speed for a one-length defeat of High Quail (Tiznow) and Ravi=s Song (Unbridled=s Song)in a Nov. 3 allowance prep. AShe=s always been a really good filly, maybe a little unlucky as a two- and three-year-old,@ trainer Ken McPeek told Daily Racing Form. AShe is doing extremely well. I thought her race over the dirt was an excellent prep.@ The field is completed by Dundalk Dust (Military), undefeated in two starts on dirt, including a last-out victory in the Illini Princess S. atHawthorne Oct. 30. She is also a two-time winner on turf and was promoted to second in the GIII Arlington Park Oaks earlier this year. Thursday, Churchill Downs, post time: 4:24 FALLS CITY H.-GII, $150,000, 3yo/up, f/m, PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY 1 Dundalk Dust Military Bridgmohan 2 Third Dawn K Sky Mesa Desormeaux 3 Striking Dancer K Smart Strike Leparoux 4 Distinctive Dixie K Fusaichi Pegasus Albarado 5High Quail K Tiznow Castanon 6 Ravi's Song Unbridled's Song Mena p.m. EST 1 1/8m TRAINER ML Block 8-1 Thrnbury 9-2 McPeek 2-1 Dollase 9-5 Calhoun 10-1 Bowman 4-1

FEATURE PRESENTATION • GII REMSEN S.

SERVING IT UP
Arguably the second-best juvenile that ran on Saturday, Nov. 6 was not at Churchill Downs. Live Oak Plantation=s To Honor and Serve (Bernardini) was happy to make the short trip downthe Cross Island Parkway from Belmont for Aqueduct=s GII Nashua S. and turned it into a procession, never getting out of a high gallop while cruising home four lengths best. A win in Saturday=s GII Remsen S. gets him a spot on the Eclipse ballot and sets the table for an awfully enticing Triple Crown trail in To Honor and Serve 2010. Field p4 Adam Coglianese

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Racetrack
Round-Up
HKIR INVITEES ANNOUNCED Officials at the
Hong Kong Jockey Club yesterday announced the 56 horses which have been extended invitations for the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races at Sha Tin Racecourse Sunday, Dec. 12. Representatives of 12 different racing jurisdictions will descend on Hong Kong for the four events, with totalpurse money of HK$64 million (US$7.7 million). Three of the races have attracted their defending champions. In the G1 CX Hong Kong Cup, at HK$20 million ($2.57 million) the richest on the program, France=s Vision d=Etat (Fr) (Chichicastenango {Fr}) will look to defend his title against top local hopefuls Collection (Ire) (Peintre Celebre), runner-up in 2009; and G2 CX Jockey Club Cup hero Irian(Ger) (Tertullian); and dual Oaks and recent G1 Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup heroine Snow Fairy (Ire) (Intikhab). Good Ba Ba (Lear Fan) will shoot for an unprecedented fourth straight success in the G1 CX Hong Kong Mile, but faces a tough task against the likes of last weekend=s G2 CX Jockey Club Mile winner Able One (NZ) (Cape Cross {Ire}), the globetrotting Paco Boy (Ire) (Desert Style...