Tax Team Hoping Perseverance In Pegasus World Cup Will Finally Pay Off Sponsored by:
Owners Randy Hill (left) and Dean Reeves flank Tax s trainer, Danny Gargan
No owners have supported Gulfstream Park s Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational program more than Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and R.A. Hill Stable.
With Tax in Saturday s $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) for the second straight year, Dean and Patti Reeves and Randy Hill will have competed in the headliner four of the five years since the stakes was transformed from the Donn Handicap into one of the world s most lucrative races for older horses. The only year the partners weren t in the Pegasus, they were represented in the 2019 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) with Channel Maker.
Playing Favorites in the Pegasus World Cups
Playing Favorites in the Pegasus World Cups
21 January, 2021 5:50 PM
By J. Keeler Johnson ( Keelerman ) Twitter: @J Keelerman
We ve all heard the phrase chalk-eating
weasel to describe a horseplayer who isn t afraid to bet on favorites. It s a humorous
term, and certainly I ve been known to eat my fair share of chalk through the
years.
But chalk-eating weasel
doesn t really capture how heavily I ll be relying on favorites at Gulfstream
Park this Saturday. The
$3 million
Pegasus World Cup (G1) and the
$1
million Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) are the highlights of the afternoon,
with a dozen runners slated to contest each race. Surely this is a prime
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Trainer Jose D Angelo
Trainer Jose D Angelo put thousands of miles on his truck last year while giving his stable star, Jesus Team, a tour of East Coast and Midwest racetracks.
“When Jesus Team left Florida to go to Monmouth, when he went from Monmouth to Saratoga and back to Monmouth, when he went to Pimlico and when he went to Kentucky and back to Florida, I drove him there in the truck,” said D Angelo, recalling the extensive road trip that produced Grade 1 placings in the Preakness (G1) at Pimlico and Breeders Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Keeneland, as well as a lifetime of memories for a horsemen who was only in his first full year of training in the U.S. “Everywhere he went, I drove the truck.”
Weekend Lineup Presented By The Maryland Jockey Club: Pegasus Races Anchor Gulfstream Card Sponsored by:
Knicks Go winning the Breeders Cup Dirt Mile
The $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational and $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational are among the seven graded-stakes worth $4.725 million on a blockbuster 12-race program at Gulfstream Park on Saturday. Both Pegasus races will be part of NBC s live national telecast from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Expanded coverage of the Pegasus World Cup will anchor TVG s weekend coverage as the network is live from Gulfstream Park with exclusive behind-the-scenes features, interviews and expert analysis. TVG s weekend broadcast will also feature opening weekend from Oaklawn Park including the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes on Friday which will offer points towards a berth in the Kentucky Derby.
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TVG
Expanded coverage of the $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) will anchor TVG s weekend coverage as the award-winning network is live from Gulfstream Park with exclusive behind-the-scenes features, interviews and expert analysis. TVG s weekend broadcast will also feature opening weekend from Oaklawn Park including the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes on Friday which will offer points towards a berth in the Kentucky Derby (G1).
Todd Schrupp, Gabby Gaudet and Joaquin Jaime will be live from Gulfstream Park for the twelve-race Pegasus World Cup card which will feature six stakes races in addition to the Pegasus World Cup (G1) including the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1). The Pegasus World Cup (G1) has drawn a field of twelve of some of the top older horses in the country including Breeders Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner Knicks Go for trainer Brad Cox and trainer Shug McGaughey s multiple Grade 1 winner, Code of Honor. Mr. Freeze, the runner-up in the 2020 edi