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Lightly-raced American Lion established himself as a major contender for next months $750000 CashCall Futurity as he captured Saturdays $100000 Hollywood Prevue for his second win in three starts. American Lion, third behind Bob Baffert-trained runners Macias and Indian Firewater with a furlong to run, moved to the front with ease under Julien Leparoux and held off Get My Fix in the final sixteenth to win by a half-length. "This was a good learning experience for him, said Kentucky-based Leparoux, who also flew in to ride 2006 Prevue winner Belgravia. He needs to learn more and he's still a big baby. That's good though, because he's still winning. When the other horse came up to him at the wire, he just took off again. It's not like's he's tired or anything. He's just a little green, but he's a nice horse." American Lion, a homebred son of Tiznow owned by WinStar Farms, covered seven furlongs on Cushion Track in 1:22.49 while rewarding backers with payoffs of $3.40, $2.80 and $2.60 as the odds-on favorite in the field of eight 2-year-olds. Get My Fix, a 20-1 outsider with Joe Talamo up, paid $10.80 and $7.80. Seattle Ruler finished third at odds of 29-1 under Martin Garcia, paying $6.80. Macias finished fourth while second-choice Indian Firewater was fifth. American Lion finished second while making his career debut in September at Arlington Park, then drew away to a 6 ¾-length victory in his second start at Keeneland on Oct. 18. He was shipped west to the barn of Eoin <b>...</b>