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Pegasus World Cup to Offer Breeders’ Cup Winners Complimentary Travel

North American-based winners of this weekend’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships will be offered complimentary equine travel to Gulfstream Park to compete in the Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational series.

The $3-million GI Pegasus World Cup for 4-year-olds and up and the $1-million GI Pegasus World Cup Turf for 4-year-olds and up will be contested Saturday, Jan. 23.

Winners of the Pegasus World Cup and Pegasus World Cup Turf will also have guaranteed spots in the starting gate for the Saudi Cup Feb 20.

Pegasus World Cup Day will feature a total of seven stakes, all graded, worth $4.8 million.

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Live Longshots to Consider When Betting the 2020 Breeders’ Cup

Part of the allure of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships every year is picking out a horse few others saw as a serious contender and watching him or her surprise everyone in the stretch. When you have 14 championship races that draw the best horses from around the world, the result is deep, talented field throughout the entire card, which happens to be a terrific recipe for longshot winners. That’s why on Breeders’ Cup weekend you can bet a horse at 12-1 or 15-1 or even 25-1 odds and still put your money on a graded stakes winner in good form.

Lookin At Lee To Enter Stud At Irish Hill And Dutchess Views Stallions In New York

Lookin At Lee (2014 Lookin At Lucky x Langara Lass), a multiple Grade 1-placed black type winner and popular runner-up in the 2017 Kentucky Derby, has been retired from racing and will stand his first season at stud in 2021 under the management of Irish Hill and Dutchess Views Stallions LLC in Saratoga Springs, New York.

The precocious Lookin At Lee broke his maiden in his second start at two and went on to earn his first black type win in the Ellis Park Juvenile Stakes. He then jumped directly into graded competition, finishing second to Not This Time in the Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes and to unanimous 2-year-old champion, Classic Empire in the G1 Claiborne Breeders' Futurity. In his final start as a 2-year old, he was fourth in the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile.

Lookin At Lee's impressive 2-year-old season catapulted him onto the Triple Crown trail in 2017. He earned his way into the Kentucky Derby starting gate by placing in two Oaklawn Park preps: The G3 Southwest Stakes and the G1 Arkansas Derby.

In the Kentucky Derby, he would come from far back to rally past all but Always Dreaming to earn second in America's most prestigious race. Lookin At Lee went on to compete in each leg of the Triple Crown (one of only eight horses to do so in the last five years), finishing fourth in the Preakness Stakes (G1). He competed against the best of his generation and proved durable, running in eight graded stakes in five months and amassing $1.3 million in career earnings.

Trainer Steve Asmussen said, “Lookin At Lee was a precocious 2-year old with an excellent disposition that brought his connections on a thrilling journey through the Triple Crown races. I'm looking forward to seeing his foals”.

The son of leading national sire Lookin At Lucky will stand his initial season for $6,500 LFSN.

Lookin At Lucky is one of the best sons of Smart Strike, sire of Curlin, and bred on the similar Mr. Prospector/Danzig line as Distorted Humor. Sons of Lookin at Lucky are now taking on the role of stallion including Accelerate and Country House. Lookin At Lee is out of the graded stakes placed and multiple graded stakes producing Langfuhr mare, Langara Lass. He is the half-brother to multiple Grade 3 winner Blended Citizen and half-brother to Grade 1 placed, Battlefield Angel, dam of 2020 Breeders' Cup Sprint participant Manny Wah.

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Saratoga WarHorse Launches Military Armed Forces and Racehorses Program

Saratoga WarHorse, a not-for-profit organization which uses retired Thoroughbred racehorses to work with service members and veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress, will now use its program to aid individuals mobilized during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Military Armed Forces and Racehorses Program is designed to assist service members and veterans during the immediate aftermath of trauma and prevent the negative consequences of Post-Traumatic Stress. The program, which will formally launch this December, is currently accepting participants and available to service members who were mobilized during the pandemic at no cost.

Since April, more than 50,000 troops across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, have been activated domestically to assist in their state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, approximately 25,000 retired and former U.S. Army medical personnel have volunteered their service.

“Tens of thousands of military troops were called upon to fight this invisible enemy,” said U.S. Army veteran and Saratoga WarHorse Foundation Chief Executive Officer Allison Cherkosly, Ph.D. “Serving in an uncertain environment–unsure whether or not the person you’re trying to help will infect you–is stressful and traumatic. Our Military FAR Program will help spare a lot of service members and their families from the suffering caused by Post-Traumatic Stress by providing early intervention shortly after enduring trauma. With this program, we have the opportunity to make a major contribution to the field of veteran care. Instead of trying to reverse the devastating consequences of Post-Traumatic Stress, we could actually prevent it.”

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