Final day showdown set-up.
Despite Lancashire's commanding position in this fixture, the final day at Canterbury promises to be enthralling with all three results still possible on the final day of the season.
Kent closed on 32-1 requiring a further 385 runs to pull-off a miraculous victory and would have had all second innings wickets remaining were it not for the injury of Rob Key and loss of Daniel Bell-Drummond prior to close of play.
The visitors extended their minimal lead of 24 for most of the day thanks to Paul Horton and Ashwell Prince, with both batsmen making centuries to put Lancashire in the driving seat.
Opener Luis Reece fell just short of his ninth fifty in eleven innings, making 47 in his fifth hundred-run stand with Horton this season.
The laters made him the first person to make back-to-back centuries since John Crawley in 1998 versus Glamorgan, scoring his second hundred of the match from 190 balls.
Horton's was slightly slower, coming from 238 deliveries, but his third century in four matches confirms his position back at the top of the order after his injury problems.
Andrea Agathangelou added a cameo innings of 51 not out from just 35 balls, with Lancashire declaring on 393-5, setting the hosts 418 to win.
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