Below please find a few handicapping bullet points concerning the Lone Star Park Handicap, which goes as the ninth race Sunday: 

Mubtaahij (1): 

*He is shortening up to a mile and a sixteenth after racing at about a mile and a quarter last out when third in the Dubai World Cup. 

*He's a fresh horse who has speed and earlier in his career he won at about distances of seven-eighths and a mile in races at Meydan. 

*He will be back on Lasix after racing without the diuretic last out in Dubai. 

*He won the Grade 1 Awesome Again last year in his first start following the Dubai World Cup. 

*Earlier in his caerer he won the Group 2 UAE Derby  by eighth lengths before finishing eighth to eventual Triple Crown winner American Pharoah in the 2015 Kentucky Derby. 

*He is a half-brother to Group 1 winner Lily of the Valley, an earner of $472,347. 

*Baffert and Smith won last year's Lone Star Park Handicap with Danzing Candy.