<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>This week on the <\/SPAN>District of Columbia<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> oval is the SILVER BEAVIS Memorial, a six furlong turf sprint for three-year-olds and up.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Silver Beavis was a Silver Deputy horse who won 5 of 56, with some nice triple-digit allowance runs, but no stakes wins.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Most of his best races came after being shipped overseas.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>In post 1 is AUSTRALIA MAT<\/B>, the outsider at 24-1.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 8-year-old has an impressive 13 wins, but is 9-0-0-0 on the turf.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He exits the Judge Lasso on turf, finishing 5th and beaten by more than 20.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His most recent form on dirt is quite decent, and a return to that surface for trainer dragons36<\/I> would seem to be in order.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Low-percentage M Corleone rides.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>Next is UNION COLONY<\/B>, a 4-year-old son of Dixie Union in the luckyhobo<\/I> colors.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He shows some decline in form in three straight turf sprints since capturing the Flash Flood with a 103 figure.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He may have raced too close to the strong pace set by AGREED and CEMETERY GATES(IRE) in the Frugal Hero last out, so a return to his off-the-pace ways may reverse the decline.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With a good 7-for-26 record and top jock L Jenkins, the faith of the oddsmakers at 5\/2 may yet be confirmed.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>Post 3 holds WELL MEANT<\/B>, a 4-year-old Sadler\u2019s Wells\/Kingmambo colt for barnstormr<\/I>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This one has not tried a stakes this year after taking the Gold Carrera and Louis the Sand as a sophomore.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has a nice-looking allowance win in <\/SPAN>Wisconsin<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> this year, but also has a habit of faltering in the final furlong.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has FIVE GROUSE to contend with on the front end, and it remains to be seen whether journeyman T Howard can take him gate-to-wire or rate him enough to win.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>The aforementioned FIVE GROUSE<\/B> actually has nothing to complain about, being the even-money favorite.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 6-year-old is an accomplished sprinter on the green, having really come to hand this year after the switch to the jockfan02<\/EM> stable.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With a pair of allowance and stakes wins each this year as well as triple-digit speed figures in five of his last six, he is the class of the race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He was second only to DIGGING THE GRAVE in his last, but that one is a multiple G1 winner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If he can\u2019t win this one on the front end, maybe jockey W Price is to blame.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>On the outside is ROYALLY RED<\/B> at 3\/1 with T L Clark up.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This 5-year-old exits the Group 2 Longchamp Sprint, where he was well back in 11th and without his usual late kick.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That group may, however, have been just too salty for him, as the top four recorded speed figures of 105 or better.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Perhaps mig<\/I> will have him primed for a return to his late-closing form, as the trainer has gotten him to the winner\u2019s circle five times this year with that strategy.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>One concern is that his globetrotting ways (<\/SPAN>Wyoming<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> to <\/SPAN>Europe<\/SPAN><\/st1:place>, back stateside, then to Longchamp, back to the District today) may catch up with him, especially with only two weeks off since the Group 2 try in <\/SPAN>France<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>SELECTIONS:\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>4-2-3<\/SPAN><\/st1:date><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solid FIVE GROUSE meets 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