Pegasus draw: Fields, posts, odds for all 3 World Cup races

Despite drawing post 11 in the 12-horse field, two-time graded-stakes winner Locked was declared the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the Grade 1, $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational on Saturday at Gulfstream Park.

The draws for next weekend’s feature as well as the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) and the Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational (G2) were done Sunday.

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A 4-year-old Gun Runner colt owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Walmac Farm, Locked won his last two starts in 2024, including the Cigar Mile (G2) on Dec. 7 at Aqueduct. Also the winner of the 2023 Breeders’ Futurity (G1), he will be making the seventh start of his career for trainer Todd Pletcher. John Velázquez will keep the ride.

Three-time Grade 1 winner White Abarrio, who was eighth in the 2023 Pegasus, drew more favorably in post 4 and was made the 3-1 second choice with Irad Ortiz Jr. riding for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.

Grade 1 victor Saudi Crown (9-2) got post 2 and 2024 Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan (8-1) post 9 in the two-turn, 1 1/8-mile race.

Señor Buscador and Imagination, both of whom had been in the final list of 12 invitations to the main field, will not run in the Pegasus.

Owner Joey Peacock Jr. said in an X post Sunday that “our team was not happy with the way Señor Buscador came out of his work (Sunday) morning,” so the 7-year-old has been retired to begin his breeding career.

Imagination is expected to be entered by trainer Bob Baffert into Saturday’s San Pasqual (G2) at Santa Anita.

The Pegasus World Cup is scheduled to start Saturday at 5:40 p.m. EST.

Six-year-old Godolphin homebred Nations Pride, a three-time Grade 1 winner in North America, drew post 7 and was installed as the 2-1 program favorite for the 1 1/8-mile, $1 million Pegasus Turf (G1).

2025 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational G1

Raqiya, who won the Goldikova (G3) on the Breeders’ Cup undercard at Del Mar in her U.S. debut, was made the 4-1 favorite after drawing the rail for the 1 1/16-mile, $500,000 Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf.