Cobra King, Hennessy Square Off Sunday

Cobra King, who has never raced anywhere but California, and Hennessy, whose career started at Hollywood Park, are the headliners for Sunday’s $100,000 Hollywood Prevue Breeders’ Cup Stakes.

They will be joined by five other 2-year-olds for the seven-furlong race, a prep for the $500,000 Hollywood Futurity on Dec. 17.

When entries for the Prevue were drawn Friday, Matty G. got the inside post position. Cobra King, with Chris McCarron riding, drew No. 2. Outside them will be Hennessy, Jazzmanian Devil, Zipped the Message, Exetera and Grey Devil.

Gary Stevens, who has ridden Hennessy in five of his seven races, will be back aboard the $500,000 yearling. Donna Barton rode Hennessy to victory in the Sapling at Monmouth Park and was his rider for a second-place finish, a neck behind Unbridled’s Song, in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Belmont Park.

At Hollywood Park, Stevens rode Hennessy in his first three races, which included a second and two firsts--one in the Hollywood Juvenile in June. Hennessy, who has earned $522,900, also won the Hopeful at Saratoga.

Racing at Golden Gate Fields, Del Mar and Santa Anita, Cobra King has won three times, with one second, in five starts. He was a disappointment, at 7-10, in the Del Mar Futurity but rebounded from that fourth-place finish to win the six-furlong Sunny Slope Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 25.

Cobra King’s trainer, Mike Puype, has said that his colt will skip the Hollywood Futurity and be sent to Gulfstream Park in Florida to prepare for the 1996 campaign.