One of the most well-traveled horses in America in 2020, he competed in Texas, Louisiana, Nebraska, West Virginia, California, Kentucky and Florida. He added Oklahoma, Minnesota and Arkansas to his 2019 travel itinerary. The versatile 5-year-old has won 4 of his last 6 races from 7 furlongs to 1-1/8 miles.
Lightly raced 5-year-old has made only 9 career starts and seeks his first career stakes win. He comes off back-to-back fourth-place finishes in the Fayette at Keeneland and Clark at Churchill Downs, chasing the likes of Pegasus World Cup contenders Mr Freeze and Code of Honor.
Flashy 2-year-old of 2019 was expected to be one of the favorites for the 2020 Triple Crown crop, but failed to negotiate longer distances and wound up sprinting again at year’s end. Son of Florida Derby winner Constitution tries to upset at a furlong farther than he’s ever won.
Red-hot winner of the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile employed his customary wire-to-wire running style. The Maryland-bred has posted 4 of his 5 career victories at Keeneland, so we’ll find out if he can translate that success to Gulfstream Park for the first time, while adding one-eighth of a mile in distance.
Third in the 2020 Preakness at 40-1 longshot odds, he continued under-the-radar when runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at a whopping 62-1 price. At the time of last year’s Pegasus World Cup, he was 0-4 toiling in the maiden claiming ranks – and has come a long way since.
Four-year-old tripled his career win total by winning his last 2 races, and comes into the Pegasus World Cup off his lifetime best race. He last victory at Santa Anita in the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes came over a field that included 2020 Pegasus World Cup Mucho Gusto.
Veteran of the 2019 Triple Crowns series is just shy of $1 million in lifetime earnings. Tax returned from a 7-month layoff to win the Dec. 12 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes, Gulfstream Park’s key local prep for the Pegasus World Cup. He’s made only 2 starts since finishing ninth in this race a year ago.
The pride of Maryland has won 10 of 17 races lifetime and more than $500,000 in purses after being claimed for only $30,000 in September 2019. But the Pegasus World Cup will be his biggest stage yet and first start away from the northeast since 2019.
Victorious in Gulfstream’s Sunshine Classic just 7 days prior to the Pegasus World Cup, he’s back on short rest for a repeat bid at the same 1-1/8 miles distance. Claimed for $40,000 and again for $62,500 in 2020, this Florida-bred ran the best race of his life last time out for trainer Mike Maker.
One of Gulfstream Park’s top 3-year-olds of 2019, Code of Honor won the Fountain of Youth and was second in the Florida Derby before his runner-up try in the Kentucky Derby. A homecoming might be what he needs to snap a series of respectable defeats, most recently second in the Grade 1 Clark to Bodexpress.
Gulfstream Park specialist finished second in last year’s Pegasus World Cup and added a victory next out in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Mile. While just 1-for-6 since that late February score, he has trained in the month leading up to the World Cup over his favorite surface in South Florida.
Earned more than $1 million during 3-year-old season of 2019, headlined by his victory in the Grade 1 Pennsylvania, upsetting the field at 31-1 odds. He’s lost his last 7 starts, including recent matchups against Pegasus World Cup rivals Tax and Sleepy Eyes Todd.