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Two-time defending champion Colonel Liam and fellow Grade 1 winners Decorated Invader, Ivar, Shirl’s Speight and Speaking Scout are among a dozen horses on the first invitation list for the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park.

Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Peter and Patty Searles’ City Man, under patient handling from jockey Joel Rosario, found a seam along the rail in mid-stretch and sprinted clear late to extend his win streak to three races in Saturday’s $200,000 Fort Lauderdale (G2) at Gulfstream Park.

Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes drew a full field of 12, plus one also-eligible, running nine furlongs on turf at Gulfstream Park.

Colonel Liam was entered in an optional claiming allowance Dec. 15 at Gulfstream, where he was the first of three also-eligibles in an overflow field of 15. He ultimately was scratched when the race was rained off the grass to the all-weather Tapeta course.

Nice Guys Stables’ King Cause may have been the oldest horse in a 10-horse field, but the 7-year-old son of Creative Cause pulled off a 14-1 upset to land his first graded stakes victory in Sunday’s $150,000 Knickerbocker (G3) at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

A rangy gray colt by Creative Cause, Packs a Wahlop has a stride to match and he proved much best in Sunday’s $200,000 Zuma Beach Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita as he glided to a facile 2 ¾-length win.

Trainer Chad Brown won the Fort Marcy for the fifth year in a row and sixth overall when L'Imperator scored an upset at New York's Belmont Park.

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