Cyberknife, Colonel Liam Head List Of 2023 Pegasus World Cup Invitees

Cyberknife (Gun Runner) and two-time defending champion Colonel Liam (Liam's Map) top the invitational lists for the $3 million GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational and the $1 million GI Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational respectively.

The seventh running of the Pegasus World Cup, a 1 1/8-mile stakes for 4-year-olds and up, will be featured Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park along with the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational, a 1 1/8-mile stakes for 4-year-olds and up, and the GIII Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf, a 1 1/16-mile stakes for older fillies and mares on turf.

The invitation list includes 12 older horses for each, as well as a list of eight reserve invitees. Contenders for the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational are: MGISW Cyberknife, GISW Defunded (Dialed In), GISW Proxy (Tapit), GISW White Abarrio (Race Day),  GISW Get Her Number (Dialed In), GISW Art Collector (Bernardini), G1SW Super Corinto (Super Saver), G1SW O'Connor (Boboman), MGSW & GISP Skippylongstocking (Exaggerator), GSW & MGISP Stilleto Boy (Shackleford), GSW & GISP Simplification (Not This Time), and GSW Last Samurai (Malibu Moon).

The eight horses on the reserve list are: Barber Road (Race Day), Endorsed (Medaglia d'Oro), Hoist the Gold (Mineshaft), Law Professor (Constitution), Muad'dib (Fiber Sonde), Pappacap (Gun Runner), Pioneer of Medina (Pioneerof the Nile), and Ridin With Biden (Constitution).

The GI Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational invitees incude: MGSW Cabo Spirit (Pioneerof the Nile), MGSW City Man (Mucho Macho Man), MGISW Colonel Liam (Liam's Map), GISW Decorated Invader (Declaration of War), GSW Dicey Mo Chara (Adaay {Ire}), GISW Ivar (Brz) (Agnes Gold {Jpn}), MGSW & GISP Masteroffoxhounds (War Front), GSW Master Piece (Chi) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), GISW Shirl's Speight (Speightstown), GISW Speaking Scout (Mr Speaker), MGSW Who's the Star (Tonalist), and MGSW & MGISP Wit (Practical Joke).

The eight horses on the reserve list are: Atone (Into Mischief), Cellist (Big Blue Kitten), Dark Shift (Dark Angel {Ire}), Good Governance (Kingman {GB}), Hurricane Dream (Hurricane Cat), In Love (Brz} (Agnes Gold {Jpn}), King Cause (Creative Cause), Lady Speightspeare (Speightstown), Law Professor (Constitution), Never Surprised (Constitution), and Street Ready (More Than Ready).

Leading the list of 12 for the GIII Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf is GISW Shantisara (Ire) (Coulsty {Ire}), GSW & GISP Wakanaka (Power {GB}), GISW Dalika (Pastorious {Ger}), and GISW Pizza Bianca (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). Also invited are: Artie's Princess (We Miss Artie), Gam's Mission (Noble Mission {GB}), Justify My Love {Brz} (Agnes Gold {Jpn}), Lady Speightspere (Speightstown), Queen Goddess (Empire Maker), Skims (GB) (Frankel {GB}), Sparkle Blue (Hard Spun), and Stolen Holiday (War Front).

Five reserve invitees include: Kate's Kingdom (Animal Kingdom), Lady Rockstar (GB) (Frankel {GB}), Perseverancia (California Chrome), Saffron Moon (Malibu Moon), and Scotish Star (Arg) (Key Deputy).

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Tapit Shoes, Half To Cyberknife, Finds His Rhythm At Second Asking

7th-Fair Grounds, $54,000, Msw, 12-3, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:46.90, ft, 7 1/2 lengths.

TAPIT SHOES (c, 2, Tapit–Awesome Flower {MSW & MGSP, $556,593}, by Flower Alley) made the most of a troubled trip at first asking, tackling a sloppy track at Churchill Oct. 30 to wind up sixth after trailing most of the race. With the addition of both blinkers and Lasix Saturday, the half-brother to Cyberknife (Gun Runner), MGISW, $2,087,520 had the betting public's favor, going off at 8-5 over the same distance as his debut. Racing again off the pace in seventh, Tapit Shoes settled outside of horses up the back straightaway and began to pick rivals off into the turn. Put to a drive while four wide past the quarter pole, he drove clear despite racing greenly a furlong from home, hitting the wire much the best while wrapped up the final sixteenth to be 7 1/2 lengths ahead of More Than Five (More Than Ready). From the family of G1 Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed (Tiznow) and GISW American Patriot (War Front), Tapit Shoes has weanling half-brother by Authentic who brought $575,000 from Whisper Hill Farm at this year's Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed sale. Awesome Flower was bred back to Gun Runner for a full-sibling to Cyberknife in 2023. Sales History: $300,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $33,678. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

O-Spendthrift Farm LLC, Steve Landers Racing LLC, Martin S. Schwartz, Michael Dubb, Ten Strike Racing, Jim Bakke, Titletown Racing, LLC, Kueber Racing, LLC, Big Easy Racing LLC, Winners Win & Michael Caruso; B-Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey & Tapit Syndicate (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.

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Desert Debuters: Expensive Nyquist Fillies Get Started

In this series, we will have a look at first-time starters entered for age-restricted maiden races on the week's main live program at Meydan Racecourse, focusing specifically on pedigree and/or performance in sales ring, both domestic and abroad. With the exception of Thursday, Dec. 1, Super Saturday, Mar. 4, and Dubai World Cup night Mar. 25, the main meeting at Meydan takes place on Fridays. Six meetings are to be staged at the UAE's flagship racecourse prior to the start of the Dubai World Cup Carnival Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Nine Carnival cards are programmed from January through March. Here is a look at this this Thursday's entries:

Thursday, December 1, 2022
2nd-Meydan, AED82,500 ($22,464), Maiden, 2yo, f, 1400m
ASAWER (f, 2, Nyquist–How My Heart Works, by Not For Love) is a half-sister to fellow Maryland-bred dual stakes winner and Grade III-placed Monday Morning Qb (Imagining) and cost noted reseller Cary Frommer $200,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October Sale before hammering for $450,000 after breezing a furlong in :10 2/5 at this year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale. There is further pedigree to recommend her, as How My Heart Works is a half-sister to MSW & MGSP Awesome Flower (Flower Alley), the dam of current dual Grade I winner and GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile runner-up Cyberknife (Gun Runner). This is also the female family of G1 Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed (Tiznow). Pat Dobbs rides for perennial leading trainer Doug Watson.

 

 

Habooba (f, 2, Nyquist–Westside Tapstress, by Lookin At Lucky) is out of a half-sister to Grade III winner Discreet Hero (Honour and Glory) and was also purchased out of this year's Midlantic sale, where she breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 flat and was knocked down for $475,000. The Feb. 17 foal is from the family of MGSW Informed (Tiznow).

 

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Jackie’s Warrior, Cyberknife Available For Inspection at Spendthrift

Eclipse Award-winning sprinter Jackie's Warrior (Maclean's Music) and two-time Grade I winner Cyberknife (Gun Runner) are available for inspection at Spendthrift Farm Nov. 9-15 from 1:30-3 p.m. daily. Though Jackie's Warrior made his final career start when third in last weekend's GI Qatar Racing Breeders' Cup Sprint, Gold Square's Cyberknife–the unlucky runner-up in the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile–will return to the barn of trainer Brad Cox Nov. 15.

“Jackie's Warrior has settled in nicely at the farm and is such an impressive specimen, especially for a horse coming off a pretty hard campaign,” said Ned Toffey, Spendthrift general manager. “It's special to be able to add another great champion to our stallion ranks and we're excited to be able to show him off to breeders. Cyberknife ran great to finish a head behind older horse Cody's Wish in the Dirt Mile, and he came to the farm looking well and with good energy. He is set to run again before retiring, however, it was important for us to be able to show him to breeders over the course of the next week.”

Jackie's Warrior will stand for an introductory fee of $50,000 S & N and retires as the first champion sprinter in 34 years to have won as many as five Grade I races. He became the only horses in the history of racing at Saratoga to post top-level success in three straight seasons when winning this year's GI A. G. Vanderbilt H. in dominating fashion.

Cyberknife, winner of this year's GI Arkansas Derby and GI Haskell S., will command a fee of $30,000 upon his retirement.

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