1/28 (GP): $12MM Pegasus World Cup

[Secretriat34]

Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) winner Hoppertunity
leads a group of graded stakes winners among
111 horses nominated to the five supporting stakes
races, three of them graded, on the Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) program
Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park.

A total of $1,025,000 in purses will be
available in the stakes leading up to the first
running of the Pegasus, with its world-record
purse of $12 million.

The Bob Baffert-trained Hoppertunity leads
30 horses by earnings nominated for the
inaugural running of the $400,000 Poseidon
Stakes at nine furlongs on dirt.
Hoppertunity prevailed in the Jockey Club Gold Cup by a halflength
over Effinex to pick up his second grade 1 victory.
He earned $2.3 million in 2016 to push
his career total to $3.9 million.
Baffert, who is preparing Arrogate for the
Pegasus, also nominated grade 1 winner Mor Spirit for the Poseidon.
Stanford, winner of the Dec. 17 Harlan's Holiday
Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream, was one of nine horses
nominated by leading trainer Todd Pletcher for the
Poseidon. Cherry Wine, second in the Preakness
Stakes (G1) and a winner of his only start at
Gulfstream, is also nominated.

[Secretriat34]

Pegasus, Poseiden....what has this guy been reading ?

maybe he should name races for the writers of the Gospels and epistles ?


Just a thought

should it be the matthew stakes, the mark stakes, etc..

or how about the

matthew, mark , luke and john allowance race