The Pegasus World Cup gets underway at Gulfstream Park today, and Ontario Racing has you covered with all your Ontario connections to root for at the signature event of the Gulfstream Winter Championship Meet
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ONTARIO BRED
Town Classic, bred by Ballycroy Training Centre in Loretto, Ont. draws Post 11 in the first race of the day. The 9-year-old son of Speightstown will look to build on his second-place finish earlier in the meet.
Mad Mocha looks to break his maiden in the second, for Woodbine trainer Stuart Simon. The 3-year-old gelding was bred by Chiefswood Stables of Schomberg, Ont. - an Ontario Racing Thoroughbred Improvement Program
leading breeder in 2021.
ONTARIO OWNED
Summer in Saratoga will run in the ninth, the TAA Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational presented by PEPSI. The 6-year-old mare is co-owned by Anderson Farms Inc. of St. Thomas, Ont. She is coming off a win at the Blush D.K Stakes (Black Type) at Keeneland in December.
Mandate will go off in the seventh - the W.L. McKnight Stakes - for Bruno Schickedanz of Toronto, Ont. Woodbine’s leading owner by wins will turn to 2018 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award winner, and Woodbine regular, Emma-Jayne Wilson to ride the 5-year-old gelding.
Marisa's Mission is owned by Orangeville Ont., resident Franco Meli. The 4-year-old gelding is trained by fellow Ontarian, Martin Drexler. He will run in the first race of the day.
ADDITIONAL ONTARIO CONNECTIONS
Mark Casse – 13-time Sovereign Award-winning Trainer of the Year- has several horses on the card. Sir Winston, the son of Ontario Bred Awesome Again, is running in the headline race, and March to the Arch will run in the penultimate race, the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational presented by Baccarat.
Lower down the card Casse has Earth Strike (IRE) in the third, and Win D’Oro and Frosted Over in the sixth.
Josie Carroll, the first female trainer to win the Queen’s Plate, has Tiesto racing in the sixth. Roger Attfield rounds out the Ontario training connections with Lady Speightstown in the TAA Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational presented by PEPSI.
Fellow Woodbine jockey Rafael Hernandez has mounts in the first, fourth, and fifth, and sixth.
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