Following the Breeders’ Cup, trainer Brad Cox had a clear top-10 prospect for the 2021 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve with probable champion 2-year-old male Essential Quality. Less than a month into the New Year, it would appear he now has two Derby contenders.
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2021 Pegasus World Cup Turf at a Glance
Given the popularity of turf racing, it came as no real surprise when Gulfstream Park added a Pegasus World Cup turf race to complement its multi-million dollar Pegasus World Cup Invitational on dirt.
Brad Cox Talks Knicks Go’s Pegasus Chances, Monomoy Girl, and More
Trainer Brad Cox looks for Knicks Go, convincing winner of the Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile in track-record time, to pick up where he left off when the speedy Maryland-bred competes in the $3 million Pegas
Swaps: A Well-Oiled Machine
Barry Irwin, now the head of Team Valor International, was entering his teenage years in Southern California when Swaps burst onto the scene in 1955. “He just really excited me and caught my imagination,” Irwin recalled. Irwin was hardly alone. Swaps’ popularity became so enormous that Union 76 gas stations began distributing posters of him. “I kept pushing my father to get gas there so I could get more pictures,” Irwin said.
