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CYPRESS, Calif. -- Mastery won the $300,000 Los Alamitos CashCall Futurity by 7-1/4 lengths Saturday in his first start around two turns.His status among prospects for the 2017 Triple Crown is equally significant.Mastery is unbeaten after three starts. Ridden by Mike Smith, Mastery ($2.40) disputed the early pace and pulled away in the final furlong, finishing 1-1/16 miles in a quick 1:41.56.It looked like he handled it pretty well, trainer Bob Baffert said. I was impressed with the way he kicked on.The margin was the widest in the 36-year history of the Grade 1 race, surpassing the seven-length margin by Matty G at Hollywood Park in 1995.The win gave Baffert a record ninth win in the race -- six at Hollywood Park, which closed in 2013, when the race was known as the Hollywood Futurity or CashCall Futurity -- and all three runnings since the race was renamed and transferred to Los Alamitos in 2014.Mastery was a massive favorite against four rivals, his reputation established with convincing wins in a maiden race at Santa Anita on Oct. 22 and the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at seven furlongs at Del Mar on Nov. 19.After a clean start, Smith had Mastery in second for the first six furlongs, closely tracking pacesetter Bobby Abu Dhabi, a 7-1 shot who set early fractions of 23.37 seconds for the opening quarter-mile and 45.65 for a half-mile. Mastery raced outside of Bobby Abu Dhabi and took the lead with less than three furlongs to go. Smith urged Mastery early in the stretch and got a quick response, but only after the colt appeared to pause for a few strides.He started looking around a little when he made the front in the stretch, but after I gave him a reminder he rebroke and was strong, Smith said.Baffert noticed that Mastery appeared to wait on his rivals in early stretch before pulling clear.He looked like he hit a little lull, Baffert said.Mastery was fitted with blinkers for the Los Alamitos Futurity. He wore them in his maiden race win, but not in the Bob Hope Stakes.Baffert did not state any race plans for Mastery in early 2017. The colt, by Candy Ride, races for Everett Dobsons Cheyenne Stables. Mastery was purchased for $425,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.Irap, a maiden who was the 23-1 longest shot in the field, closed from fourth to finish second, 5-3/4 lengths in front of 11-1 Dangerfield. Bobby Abu Dhabi faded to finish fourth, followed by the Baffert-trained Show Me Da Lute.Doug ONeill trains Irap and Dangerfield. He said Iraps performance was a surprise. Irap, by Tiznow, was third and fourth in his first two races.Were happy, ONeill said. We need to digest that. We thought we were helping to fill a Grade 1 in our backyard. Hes got the pedigree and he exceeded our expectations.Dangerfield, by Into Mischief, won the minor Oak Tree Juvenile Stakes at Pleasanton on Oct. 1 in his fourth start and was third in the Grade 3 Delta Jackpot Stakes, a $1 million race in Louisiana on Nov. 18. Drayden Van Dyke rode Dangerfield for the first time in the Los Alamitos Futurity, and told ONeill the race was a learning experience.Drayden said if he could do it all over again he wouldnt have left him with so much to do, ONeill said. 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The rookies best save came with 2:17 left in the third period when he denied former Wild forward Matt Cullen from just outside of the crease on the right side. A few years ago, Patrick Ferriday and Dave Wilson took it upon themselves to rank the 100 greatest Test hundreds. It was a meticulous and exhaustive exercise, one that provoked much debate. More importantly, whatever your view on matters ordinal, it was a collection of fine writing on some unarguably great batting. Now they have laboured lovingly over a follow-up, Supreme Bowling: 100 Great Test Performances, and the discussions can begin again.As with Masterly Batting, the original book, this is an immensely thorough and (as least as far as possible) scientific attempt to list crickets best Test-match bowling. Ferriday sets out the methodology in the opening section, taking into account seven key factors, such as wickets/runs (converted into relative value), opposition, conditions, and match and series impact. Of these, match impact is considered the most important - reflective of the adage that it is bowlers who win games - which is a notable tweak from the Masterly Batting formula, where the conditions and opposing attack took on greater significance.The cut-off point is a five-for, of which there had been almost 2800 in Tests up to the start of 2016 (the books other cut-off point, meaning Stuart Broads 6 for 17 in Johannesburg misses out). Quite a bit of sifting required, then. If magnitude is all you are after, that list already exists; in Supreme Bowling, Jim Laker is brought down to size - though the calm destroyer still takes his place in the pantheon.Once again, the Ferriday-Wilson ranking system is largely dispassionate. Lots of numbers are punched in - including, for instance, a precisely calibrated measure of each wickets worth using historical ICC batting ratings - and out burp the results. There is a category for intangibles, which takes into account first-hand reportage, but the attempt is to be as objective as possible. The authors, of course, know they wont be able to please everybody, noting in their introduction the reaction to Masterly Batting: almost every innings in the 100 was considered either too high, too low or a foolish inclusion and many outside the 100 were denounced as absurd omissions.From which quarters will the brickbats come this time? Shane Warnes boosters will doubtless contest the suggestion that only one of his 37 five-wicket hauls merits inclusion - especially when Phil Tufnell gets in twice. Malcolm Marshall, Wasim Akram, Abdul Qadir and Dennis Lillee, meanwhile, are among the illustrious names who fail to make the grade. (Akram and James Anderson are the only bowlers with 400-plus Test wwickets not to feature.dddddddddddd)However, its worth noting that the Wisden 100, which was compiled in 2001, came to similar conclusions: Marshall, Wasim and Lillee were again absent, while Warnes only entry was for his 8 for 71 against England in 1994-95 (in Supreme Bowling it is his 6 for 34 versus South Africa three years later). Perhaps sweeping up Poms by the bagful isnt necessarily the stuff of greatness.Both lists find agreement on the apex bowling performance in Tests too. Hugh Tayfield, the South Africa offspinner, is perhaps not as feted many of the names that come after him but he is one of only four players to have three or more entries in the Supreme 100 (Kapil Dev, Muttiah Muralitharan and Mitchell Johnson are the others). Of the big beasts, only Curtly Ambrose manages two appearances in the top ten. But all this is really parlour talk before sitting down to enjoy the banquet. The great strength of the book - as was the case with its predecessor - is the quality of the writing, in particular the Pinnacle section, which covers performances 25 to 1 and takes up two-thirds of the 300-odd pages. Ferriday and Wilson can call upon an all-star attack themselves: Rob Smyth channels Ezekiel 25:17 (and Pulp Fictions Jules Winnfield) to describe Ambrose as he struck down upon England with great vengeance and furious anger at Port-of-Spain in 1994; Dileep Premachandran relates Harbhajan Singhs turbanating of Australia in Chennai days after the Miracle of Eden - a far preferable destiny to driving long-haul trucks in Canada; and Russell Jackson summons some appropriately muscular prose for Johnson: The He-Man fitness freak with the Hells Angels moustache said bollocks to self-preservation and up yours to workload management.A particular favourite of mine was Rob Bagchis beautifully evocative piece on Sarfraz Nawaz - Pakistans swing-bowling dandy - which manages to reference Keyser Soze, Omar Sharif and Marlies Gohr while retelling the story of his match-stealing 9 for 86 at the MCG in 1979. Then there is Richard Hadlee and his talking ball at the Gabba, not to mention the Dylan-infused folk tribute to Bob Willis in 1981… I could go on.If the concept is a touch High Fidelity, the resulting collection is high quality. There should be no need for argument about that.Supreme Bowling Compiled and edited by Patrick Ferriday and Dave Wilson Von Krumm Publishing, 2016 321 pages, ￡15 (Kindle edition ￡4.91) ' ' '