Article: Hawthorne Cup looks like a two-horse race

I'd almost guarantee either Cutlass Reality or Cryptoclearance will win Saturday's five-horse, $500,000-plus Budweiser-Hawthorne Gold Cup.

Both stand out from a class standpoint. Cutlass Reality will go right to the lead or get that position early and become the horse to catch. Cryptoclearance can really explode in the stretch.

The other three entrants in the 1 1/4-mile grind don't catch my good eye. True, Nostalgia's Star won last year's 41st running of the rich local race, but the field wasn't as strong and he may not be quite the same horse he was then. In fact, he hasn't won in four starts since.

If Manzotti can do any bragging it's because he has won four of 11 starts this ...

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