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Kent Desormeaux Says:

Parading is the tepid 4-1 morning-line favorite in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup on Saturday at Hollywood Park, a wide-open race that has drawn a large field of 13.A winner of 7 of 17 starts and $405,046, Parading has been handy for jockey Kent Desormeaux in recent starts, proving capable of stalking the pace or racing from farther off the pace. Desormeaux has the mount Saturday.The race includes defending champion Mast Track; Magnum, who won the San Antonio Handicap in February; and Big Booster, who was third in the 2007 Gold Cup.The presence of the 4-year-old filly Life Is Sweet adds intrigue to the field. The Gold Cup will be Life Is Sweet\'s first start against males and first start at 1 1/4 miles. Trainer Shirreffs is banking on Life Is Sweet\'s late kick to put her in contention.Bullsbay won the Grade 3 Alysheba Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 3 and was fourth after a wide trip in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap there June 13.Informed was a 14-1 outsider when he won his first stakes in the Californian, run over 1 1/8 miles. Claimed for $25,000 last summer, he could give trainer Doug O\'Neill his fifth Gold Cup win. The rest of the field includes Song of Navarrone, who ran very close to Informed and Rail Trip and Dakota Phone in the Californian (G2) last month and might have an outside shot to upset the field. Rail Trip hasn\'t quite been the superstar expected of him, but this could be his breakout performance and he is a nice 5-1 on the morning line. Global Hunter and Autism Awareness round out the field.