2022 Pegasus World Cup Profile: Knicks Go

National Treasure holds off Senor Buscador to win the Pegasus World Cup (Coglianese) David Joseph/Gulfstream Park HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.- Preakness Stakes (G1) winner National Treasure asserted his class Saturday at Gulfstream Park, providing Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his third success in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1)…

One of the biggest days of horse racing action before the Triple Crown gets underway is staged at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, as two massive Grade 1s are staged in Florida. The action on the turf has all the makings of being a classic, with a talented field set to line up in the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational. But, which runner will come out…

Fourth in last year's Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1), Atone stepped up to score his first stakes win in Saturday's $981400 renewal at Gulfstream Park. The Three Diamonds Farm runner collared Ivar late, capping a banner day for trainer Mike Maker and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. Ortiz, who just received his fourth Eclipse Award during Thursday night's gala,…

Team Tuley continues to look for value at horse racing tracks from coast to coast. This is kind of a down time of the year for horse racing before we get to the main Kentucky Derby preps, but Saturday features a huge Pegasus card at Gulfstream Park. It's so big, in fact, that our friend Ed Sehon (aka Mr. Ed) has a separate column…

Gold Square LLC's Cyberknife is scheduled to make the final start of his racing career Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where the multiple Grade 1 stakes winner has been installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) presented by Baccarat at Sunday's post-position draw. The Pegasus World Cup will…

The Pegasus World Cup (G1) is the first major race of the year for the handicap division, and it is coming up at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, January 28! The race covers 1 1/8 miles on the dirt, and it offers a rich $3 million purse. It drew an overflow field and promises to be a can't-miss betting race. Cyberknife will be the favorite in the…

The first big racing day of 2023 is Saturday, Jan. 28 and features the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park. South Florida's leading luxury sports and lifestyle event of the year has helped energize and modernize the sport of horse racing for a new generation of fans. Now in it's seventh year, the Pegasus World Cup sets the…

The 149 running of the Kentucky Derby will take place on May 6, 2023. By contrast, the Pegasus World Cup will have its 7 running on January 28, 2023, on NBC and Peacock. While attempts to analyze the history of the Kentucky Derby are usually big broad strokes that look for trends, a race with only 6 previous runnings allows for a "micro"…

The 2023 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Series comes to Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Jan. 28 (4:30-6 p.m. ET, NBC, Peacock). Some of the biggest names in the sport are potentially going after the $4.5 million at stake. Cyberknife is most likely the biggest name that is probably to be in the field of the headline dirt race. He finished second in…

Coming in off huge victories in the Pegasus World Cup (G1) and Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1), Life Is Good will look to conquer new worlds when he headlines a field of 11 older males set for Saturday's $12 million Dubai World Cup at Meydan Racecourse. A son of Into Mischief, trained by Todd Pletcher, Life Is Good will not only be making his first…

The $1 million Whitney Stakes headlines four graded stakes Saturday at Saratoga. A compact and competitive field of six older horses will race 1 1/8 miles. The 95th running of The Whitney is also a "Win and You're In" qualifier for the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic Nov. 5 at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington. The Whitney is Race 10 of a 12-race…

The 2023 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Series comes to Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Jan. 28 (4:30-6 p.m. ET, NBC, Peacock). Some of the biggest names in the sport are potentially going after the $4.5 million at stake. Cyberknife is most likely the biggest name that is probably to be in the field of the headline dirt race. He finished second in…

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Whatever happens Saturday will simply be resume-padding for Knicks Go. His retirement home has been picked out, his stud fee has been set and he's in the relatively small club of thoroughbreds with multiple Breeders' Cup race victories including last year's Classic. There's not much left to prove. "I would think that he's…

The 2022 Pegasus Stakes at Gulfstream, the Stronach family's sixth staging of the race, is on its way to becoming a national winter season fixture, and to that end, this year's bracing $3 million dollar purse helps inspire dreams of greatness, or at least solvency, in stables around the country. Drawn back to the scene of his 2021 Pegasus victory,…

Knicks Go warms up for Saturday's Pegasus World Cup. Photo by Lauren King, courtesy of Gulfstream Park Jan. 28 (UPI) -- It's only January, with lots of races yet to come, but it's possible the "race of the year" could be run Saturday in the $3 million Grade I Pegasus Stakes at Gulfstream Park as speedy Breeders' Cup champions Knicks Go and Life Is…

Like many front-runners, Knicks Go is an all-or-nothing proposition. As a 2-year-old, he wired the Breeders' Futurity by 5 1/2 lengths at odds of 70-1 and ran second at 40-1 in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Then the potential star turned into a nobody, losing his next nine races. Out of desperation, owner Korea Racing Authority replaced Ben Colebrook…

Colonel Liam makes his bid for Gulfstream Park history from Post 6 as the slim 3/1 morning-line favorite for Saturday's $1 million Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf. Whether he can make it a successful bid depends on how the defending champion handles a 239-day layoff. The fourth edition of the Pegasus World Cup Turf co-headlines Gulfstream Park's…

The $3 million Pegasus World Cup, winter's richest and most important thoroughbred race, takes flight Saturday at Gulfstream Park in greater Miami. The mile and one-eighth test is contested at a middle distance that brings together elite horses at varying skill sets, and this year's event lured the winners of the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (Life is…

The 2022 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Series comes to Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Jan. 29 (4:30-6 p.m. ET, NBC, Peacock). Both winners of last year's marquee events return to Florida in the hopes of defending their titles. Knicks Go leads the 2022 Pegasus World Cup (G1) field with 6-5 odds despite drawing the far inside post position. The likely…

The high-caliber graded stakes action for the biggest equine stars in the United States may be over for 2021 following the Breeders' Cup World Championships. Still, all eyes will quickly be turning to what should be a fascinating battle in the Pegasus World Cup in late January. Some of the best horse racing betting sites are already offering…

In the days leading up to the 38th Breeders' Cup at Del Mar in California, usracing.com is publishing profiles on the horses in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic (Saturday, Nov. 6). The profiles will be updated following the post-position draw on Monday, Nov. 1. By Ed McNamara How do you knock a horse who's never done anything wrong? Well, in…

Heavy favorite Knicks Go sprung out of the gate and busted out a wire-to-wire win in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park, earning himself an invite to the $20 million Saudi Cup in February. Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey finalist Joel Rosario was in the irons. Knicks Go has been on fire since moving over to Brad Cox, a…

At nine furlongs, the 2021 Pegasus World Cup is a deceptively long race this year, not least because its narrow favorite, Knicks Go, is a known - or at least has been touted as a "born" - speedster. As we know, speed comes at a price, be it in horse racing or any other endeavor, and the bottom line of that inflexible equation is that you have to…

The official state song "Maryland, My Maryland" will not be performed before the Preakness next month because the lyrics are perceived by some to be racist. A spokesperson for Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness, said Friday the tradition of playing the song before the race will be scrapped on Oct. 3, when the Triple Crown series comes to…

Ken Church, who rode over 2000 winners during a 20-year career that included four mounts in the Kentucky Derby, died Monday. He was 90. Church was diagnosed with pneumonia a week ago at the retirement facility where he lived in Reno, Nevada, and was taken to a hospital. He contracted COVID-19 there and died, his daughter Debbie Anderson told Del…