Accelerate looking for encore performance in Gold Cup

Only eight horses have won the Santa Anita Handicap and Gold Cup at Santa Anita in the same year, including such greats as Affirmed, Ack Ack and Noor. Melatonin turned the trick just two years ago.
Lava Man is the only horse to accomplish the feat twice, winning in 2006 and ’07, and he, along with Game On Dude, are the only standouts to sweep Southern California’s three major Grade I stakes for older horses on the dirt — the Big ‘Cap, Gold Cup and Del Mar’s Pacific