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Inglewood, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - First Dude and Game On Dude have been entered by trainer Bob Baffert in Saturday's $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park. The pair of four-year-olds are two of the eight older thoroughbreds set to start in the 72nd running of the 1 1/4-mile race. The Gold Cup is a Breeders' Cup 'Win and You're In' race giving the winner a berth in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic November 5 at Churchill Downs.

 

"They're ready," said Baffert. "We're going to put Game On Dude on the lead. A mile and a quarter is no problem for him. The distance should not be a problem for First Dude either. He's like Shaq (Shaquille O'Neal), a big intimidating horse."

 

Owned by Donald Dizney, First Dude is working on a two race win streak. He won an allowance race at Santa Anita Park in April and captured the Alysheba the next month at Churchill Downs.

 

"Awesome Gem has plenty of personality, and he does whatever we ask him to do," trainer Craig Dollase noted on the owner's website. "He makes a trainer's job easy. I can run him almost any distance on any surface and know he will represent us well."

 

Owned by West Point Thoroughbreds, Awesome Gem is the wealthiest horse in the race with more than $2.5 million in earnings. In his last start, he was second to Headache in last month's Cornhusker Handicap at Prairie Meadows.

 

From the rail out here is the field for the Hollywood Gold Cup: Twirling Candy, Joel Rosario: Miss Match, Joe Talamo; Setsuko, Victor Espinoza; Game On Dude, Chantal Sutherland; Awesome Gem, David Flores; Soul Candy, Garrett Gomez; First Dude, Martin Garcia and Dark Cove, Rafael Bejarano.

 

Napravnik has gained national recognition this year with her winning the Louisiana Derby aboard Pants On Fire. The colt and rider finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby.

 

This year Napravnik has earned nearly $4.7 million in 617 mounts and 131 wins.

 

"We took the blinkers off because we wanted to see him relax," Sadler noted after Twirling Candy's 1 1/4-length win. "He trains without the blinkers in the morning. He's just a very, very good horse, a very gifted horse. And he's exciting, too."

 

"He's a real good horse," Rosario said. "He can do anything. When he sees horses in front of him he just goes and gets them."

 

Defending winner of the Gold Cup, Awesome Gem, has been tagged in the morning- line at 10-1. He won last year's edition at 8-1 versus five rivals. The eight- year-old gelding, trained by Craig Dollase, will break from post five with David Flores returning to ride.

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