Below please find a few handicapping bullet points for Lone Star Park Handicap starters Fear the Cowboy, Shotgun Kowboy and South Beach.
Fear the Cowboy (4)
*He's banked $1.7 million to start as the second leading earner in the field behind Mubtaahij with $5.7 million.
*Total earnings for the four horses that will start in the Lone Star Park Handicap following the scratch of Full of Luck (2) exceed $8.7 million.
*Fear the Cowboy was a close third last out in the Charles Town Classic, a three-turn race that produced the 2010 winner of the Lone Star Park Handicap in Redding Colliery.
*Fear the Cowboy will get three pounds from 124-pound highweight Mubtaahij.
*Loza prefers a dry track for Fear the Cowboy, who will get such a surface Sunday.
Shotgun Kowboy (3)
*Millionaire has a chance to take these a long way on the lead, with both Mubtaahij and Fear the Cowboy backing up in distance.
*He will tote 118 pounds, getting six pounds from Mubtaahij and three from Fear the Cowboy.
*He's a Grade 3 winner who has won five stakes overall in his career to date.
*He was third in last year's Lone Star Park Handicap and second in 2016.
South Beach (5)
*He was a $1.8 million purchase at auction.
*He was fifth last out in the Grade 3 Steve Sexton Mile at Lone Star Park and note the horse who was sixth won an allowance earlier on the card at Lone Star.
*He is weighted at 113, but Diego will be three pounds over. South Beach will get between two and eight pounds from his rivals Sunday.
*Diego and Asmussen teamed to win 10 races over the most recent three-day raceweek at Lone Star.
*South Beach will add blinkers.
*He is moving back to the mile and a sixteenth distance of his last win.