2017 Pegasus World Cup Betting Odds PT 1

One of the most interesting experiments in quite some time is going to unfold at Gulfstream Park in late January as the inaugural running of the Pegasus World Cup draws nearer by the day. There is a lot to like about the set up for this race and the dynamics surrounding who actually gets to run in the contest but the fact remains that nobody quite knows what to make of the whole situation since it's never really happened before.

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The Pegasus World Cup is the brainchild of horse racing and auto parts impresario Frank Stronach who came up with the concept of a $1,000,000 entry fee being put up by 12 individuals with the winner of the race taking home $7,000,000 making it the world's richest horse race – more so than the $10,000,000 Dubai World Cup – which does not require any type of million dollar entry fee to run one's horse.

The race fills the gap in the United States of not having a marquee race between the Breeders' Cup and some of the higher class Grade 1 two turn races that begin to happen around March in California and Florida.

Since the contest is going to be run at a 1m1f distance then you're going to have to do a bit of visualizing since a lot of these horses expecte to line up in the race tend to compete at least a furlong or more in distance. However, it does make it really interesting because the two leading fancies are not known to excel at 9 furlongs while a few others trading at much longer odds will be brought into the mix with the proper deployment of in-race tactics.

Arrogate seemingly came out of nowhere to place his stamp on the 2016 year in America and looms large as the candidate for Horse of the Year awards. He popped up with an eye-catching performance in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga to absolutely flatten the leading three-year-old's as they pursued the race commonly known as the late summer Derby.