$10 MILLION RACE NEXT FOR CALIFORNIA CHROME

It’s on to the world’s richest race for California Chrome. The 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner appears to be back in top form after an easy 2length victory in a $150,000 race in Dubai on Thursday, a second consecutive win for the popular horse on the comeback trail. “I feel it was a good race,” winning jockey Victor Espinoza said after the race of about 11⁄ miles at

4 Meydan Racecourse. “I don’t think it was very hard. It was a good solid race for the next one.” And that next one would be the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 26. Now 5 years old, California Chrome has won two in a row after a close-call, secondplace finish in the 2015 World Cup. After that race, California Chrome was sent to train in England and then back to the USA. However, it was revealed he had a bruised bone in a leg and did not race for about 10 months before returning and winning the San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita Park on Jan. 9.