DUBAI WORLD CUP

Meydan, eighth race. Grade 1. Purse: $10,000,000. Mile-and-a-quarter, Tapeta, 3-year-olds and up. Post: 1:35 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Twice Over, now a 6-year-old, has been a consistent, high-class racehorse since he was 2, winning 10 of 23. Any thought he does not like Meydan’s synthetic Tapeta surface was erased last out when Twice Over demolished a large field in the Maktoum Challenge over this track at this distance, drawing clear by 23⁄4 lengths while in hand.

TV: HRTV, TVG, NYRA Ch. 71

PAN AMERICAN

Gulfstream Park, 10th race. Grade 3. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-a-half, 4-year-olds and up. Post: 5:25 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Musketier, making his first start since October in the Feb. 19 MacDiarmida, rallied from far back to be third going a mile-and-three-eighths over this turf course. Today, in his second start back off the layoff, the German-bred 9-year-old gets added distance, drops a significant four pounds (from 121 to 117).

TV: HRTV, NYRA Ch. 71

LOUISIANA DERBY

Fair Grounds, 10th race. Grade 2. Purse: $1,000,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, 3-year-olds. Post: 6:03 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Elite Alex has the look of a horse that’s craving for more distance after rallying from far back to finish third going a mile in the Feb. 21 Southwest. Though the son of Afleet Alex will break from post 11, look for Calvin Borel to take back immediately and drop down to the rail.

TV: HRTV, NYRA Ch. 71

LAST WEEK: At Aqueduct, Quantum Miss won the Cicada, paying $5.80, $3.60, $2.60. At Gulfstream, Amen Hallelujah was second in the Inside Information paying $3.20 to place, $2.80 to show. At Oaklawn, Alternation was scratched from the Rebel after flipping in the gate.