Pegasus World Cup Day at Gulfstream Park has arrived, and one of many largest sporting occasions in South Florida may flip right into a Pegasus World Cup betting bonanza for horseplayers.
An enormous purpose for that revolves round Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1), the featured race on a 13-race program with out an apparent standout in a full discipline of 12.
Publish time for the 1 1/8-mile World Cup is 5:39 p.m. ET, and the race will probably be broadcast by NBC. Additionally on the cardboard: the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) and the $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G2).
Nearer take a look at the Pegasus World Cup discipline
Simply three of the 12 have gained a Grade 1 race – Tappan Avenue, Full Serrano, and White Abarrio, in search of to repeat his win within the Pegasus World Cup a 12 months in the past.
Different contenders haven’t even stepped into Grade 2 firm but, together with Disco Time, the 8-5 morning-line favourite who brings a 5-0 file into the race.
One other, British Isles, has spent most of his 22-race profession operating on turf. And there’s Skippylongstocking, a $3.7 million earner however 0-for-11 in Grade 1 stakes, together with three earlier tries within the Pegasus World Cup. Additionally add Madaket Street, who has only a maiden win in 9 profession begins for four-time World Cup winner Bob Baffert.
With that, there’s fairly just a few betting puzzles to piece collectively. Sure, prime coach Brad Cox circumstances two of the favorites in Disco Time and Tappan Avenue (6-1).
Pegasus World Cup Odds Desk, Contenders, Publish Positions
| PP | Horse | Odds | Jockey | Coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disco Time | 8/5 | Flavien Prat | Brad Cox |
| 2 | British Isles | 20/1 | Diego Herrera | Richard Baltas |
| 3 | Full Serrano | 12/1 | Joel Rosario | John Sadler |
| 4 | Banishing | 20/1 | Jose Ortiz | David Jacobson |
| 5 | Skippylongstocking | 15/1 | Tyler Gaffalione | Saffie Joseph Jr. |
| 6 | Madaket Street | 10/1 | Mike Smith | Bob Baffert |
| 7 | Tappan Avenue | 6/1 | Luis Saez | Brad Cox |
| 8 | Poster | 20/1 | Junior Alvarado | Eoin Harty |
| 9 | Captain Prepare dinner | 15/1 | John Velazquez | Todd Pletcher |
| 10 | Mika | 10/1 | Manny Franco | Mike Maker |
| 11 | White Abarrio | 4/1 | Irad Ortiz Jr. | Saffie Joseph Jr. |
| 12 | Brotha Keny | 30/1 | Javier Castellano | Jose Francisco D’Angelo |
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Can stablemates Disco Time, Tappan Avenue run 1-2?
Disco Time’s declare to fame is a win within the Lecomte Stakes (G3) greater than a 12 months in the past; Tappan Avenue gained the 2025 Florida Derby (G1); he’s the one horse to beat Horse of the Yr Sovereignty; however he was sidelined for practically 9 months with an damage.
“He at all times skilled like a gifted horse earlier than he ever ran. He began his profession off a pleasant 3-for-3,’’ Cox stated. “Then we hit slightly bump within the street final winter with him. He bought a while off and got here again a much bigger, stronger model of himself. We predict he has a very massive future.”
As for Tappan Avenue: He gained an non-obligatory claiming allowance race at Gulfstream on Dec. 19.
“It was a place to begin off a fairly lengthy layoff,” Cox stated. “I didn’t see something flashy about it however, somebody who’s round him every day, I do really feel like he has moved ahead. I really feel like his works have been higher since and that he’s taken a step ahead. Bodily, he seems to be wonderful.”
Can White Abarrio do it once more?
White Abarrio, with $7.1 million in earnings, had a shaky 12 months after his win the Pegasus World Cup. In his remaining two races of 2025, he completed fourth within the Whitney Stakes (G1) after being bumped round at the beginning and was scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Grime Mile (G1) on Nov. 1 simply minutes earlier than submit time.
“Final 12 months we went in filled with confidence,’’ Joseph stated of White Abarrio. “This 12 months, it’s a unique set of circumstances. He’s by no means had any actual down time. He would at all times gallop, gallop, gallop.”
White Abarrio is 8-for-10 on his residence observe right here at Gulfstream Park. And he additionally gained the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Basic (G1).
Publish place a problem for Disco Time, and White Abarrio?
All advised, the race figures to be wide-open and savvy handicappers may very well be rewarded by precisely predicting how the race will probably be run.
Curiously, Disco Time breaks from the rail below Eclipse Award-winning jockey Flavien Prat and White Abarrio, with Irad Ortiz, Jr. Aboard, breaks from an outdoor submit (gate 11).
At Gulfstream Park, the run into the primary flip is shorter than at most tracks. Disco Time will attempt to keep away from site visitors issues from the rail in a big discipline, whereas White Abarrio may both settle again or try to get close to the entrance heading into the primary flip.
“I’m OK with it, so long as he breaks properly and will get good place and is comfy,” Cox stated of Disco Time. “I don’t assume he essentially must be on the lead. He can lay off it. That’ll be as much as Flavien (Prat) and the way he breaks.”
As for White Abarrio, Joseph stated: “Nothing you are able to do about that. Irad (Ortiz, Jr) is the perfect at understanding unhealthy posts. The break’s crucial factor from any draw.”
Corridor of Fame coach Todd Pletcher figures Captain Prepare dinner (15-1) has nearly as good an opportunity of pulling off a victory as another horse within the discipline.
“We felt like operating him contemporary within the Pegasus was value a go,” Pletcher stated, including that the general complexion of the sphere makes it “an attention-grabbing race that’s kind of huge open.”
Captain Prepare dinner was second within the Perryville Stakes (G3) in his final begin.
Searching for a longshot?
Poster, with Junior Alvarado up for coach Eoin Harty, will probably be geared up with blinkers to maintain him targeted on the duty. He was overwhelmed a head by Skippylongstocking within the Harlan’s Vacation Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream on Dec. 20 and has gained 4 of seven begins for Eclipse Award-winning proprietor Godolphin.
“He needed to make up six lengths simply to get to the winner. The winner bought the leap, and he bought the within journey,” Harty stated of the slim loss within the Harlan’s Vacation. “We had been fairly huge that day, and he simply got here up a head brief. I believe if the positions had been reversed, he most likely would have gained.
“I put some blinkers on him so, hopefully, he’ll lay slightly nearer and never have fairly as a lot to do within the latter a part of the race.”
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