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There are 10 horses likely to face California Chrome in Saturdays Los Alamitos Winter Challenge. Or, at least 10 horses willing to take a chance at decent prize money for finishing second.The Winter Challenge is run at 1-1/16 miles and was developed in recent months as a final start in California for California Chrome before his last career race in the $12 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 28. California Chrome is scheduled to go to stud in Kentucky in February.As of Wednesday morning, Aint Misbehavin, Air Pocket, Avanti Bello, Ground Rules, Howdy, Mishegas, Papacoolpapacool, Point Piper, Unusual Meeting, and Wrightwood were expected to enter. Realistically, they are running for second-place money of $30,000.The race will pay $50,000 to the winner, $20,000 to third, and $15,000 to the fourth- and fifth-place finishers. All other finishers will receive $10,000. If all those horses run, the race will be worth $180,000, much higher than the advertised purse of $100,000. The track boosted prize money for the second- through fifth-place finishers and guaranteed $10,000 per finisher to entice participation.Aside from California Chrome, who was second to Arrogate in the Breeders Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 5, Point Piper has the best form this year. Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, the 6-year-old Point Piper won the Grade 3 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs in August, was sixth in the Breeders Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 4, and ran second in the Grade 3 Native Diver Stakes at Del Mar on Nov. 27.Owned by a partnership that includes Gatto Racing and Hollendorfer, Point Piper has won 5 of 27 starts and earned $436,635. The Longacres Mile is his only win in nine starts this year.Hes been a bit of an in-and-out horse, Hollendorfer said Wednesday. Hes doing really good. Well enter and see what happens.California Chrome has won 6 of 7 starts this year, including the $10 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in March and the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar in August.Aside from California Chrome and Point Piper, the only other 2016 stakes winner among the expected runners is Avanti Bello, who won the Tiznow Stakes for California-breds at Santa Anita in May. Trained by Doug ONeill, Avanti Bello won an allowance race at Santa Anita on Oct. 30 and is the only projected starter who won his last start.California Chrome had a routine training session at Los Alamitos on Wednesday. He galloped and schooled in the paddock.He wont do much before the race, trainer Art Sherman said.Sherman is concerned about weather conditions in the coming days. Rain was expected Thursday and early Friday, although Saturdays conditions were expected to be clear, cool, and windy.Im hoping we dont have to worry about it, he said. Cheap Air Max Online . 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Alex Hales made 116 not out in Chittagong in the 2014 World T20.0Number of higher targets successfully chased by England losing two or fewer wickets, than the target of 141 in this T20I. They had chased down 140 without losing any wickets against New Zealand in Wellington in 2012-13. This was only their fourth win by eight or more wickets in T20Is.3/27Liam Dawsons figures in this match - the best for an England spinner on T20I debut. The previous highest was Chris Schofields 2 for 15 against Zimbabwe in Cape Town in 2007 World T20. Dawsons figures are overall the fifth-best by an England bowler on T20I debut.61 - Runs scored by Sri Lanka in their last ten overs of the innings losing seven wickets after being 79 for 3 at the end of the tenth over. England scored only 66 in their first ten and then made 78 runs in the next 7.3 overs to chase down the target comfortably. For Sri Lanka, there were six overs in the first ten where they scored eight or more runs compared to just two such overs in the last ten.114* Runs added by Eoin Morgan and Buttler for the third-wicket, which is the second-highest partnership for England in T20Is against Sri Lanka. The highest of 152 was also for the thirdd-wicket involving Morgan and Hales in Chittagong in the 2014 World T20.dddddddddddd0 Number of England players who had scored 50 or more in their first innings as an opener in T20Is, before Buttler. This was the first time Buttler had opened in his 49-match T20I career and he made 73 not out. The previous highest by an England player in his first innings as an opener was 46 by James Vince against Pakistan in Sharjah in 2015-16. The highest by any player in his maiden innings as an opener is 96 by Damien Martyn against South Africa at the Gabba in 2005-06 - the only time he opened in his four-match T20I career. This was only the second time Buttler opened in his entire T20 career of 140 innings. The first time he opened was for Somerset against Jamaica in Bridgetown in the 2011 Caribbean T20 where he was out without scoring.5 - Number of instances of a teams top five all scoring more than 10 runs but none of them going past 30 in a T20I innings. In this match, Sri Lankas top five all went onto double figures but the highest was 26 by Danushka Gunathilaka. This was the first such instance for Sri Lanka. The last such instance for any team was for West Indies against Ireland in Kingston in 2013-14.18.85 Kusal Pereras average on this England tour - 132 runs in seven innings. His highest score on this tour was 43 and he was out three times for single digits. He, though, made 32 and 135 in two ODI innings against Ireland in Dublin between the Test and ODI series against England.72 Number of T20Is missed by Farveez Maharoof for Sri Lanka, before appearing in this match. 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