White Abarrio wins 2025 Pegasus World Cup, Prize Money, Past Winners, Results, Records
— White Abarrio won the $3 million Pegasus World Cup with a dominant performance at Gulfstream on Saturday.
He ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:48.05 under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., who earned his third career Pegasus victory.
Sent off as the 5-2 favorite, White Abarrio paid $7.60, $3.80 and $3.
Locked returned $3.20 and $2.40, while Skippylongstocking paid $4.40.
White Abarrio hit the apex of his career in 2023, when he won the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic as well as the Whitney at Saratoga for trainer Rick Dutrow. The horse won the Florida Derby at Gulfstream in 2022.
The horse had been transferred when his Florida-based trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. was barred from racing at Churchill Downs and in New York after two of his horses died suddenly 48 hours apart in races at Churchill in the weeks leading up to the 2023 Kentucky Derby.
White Abarrio’s owners wanted to run him in the Met Mile at Belmont, so they chose the New York-based Dutrow to oversee him. The horse went back to Joseph’s barn in June 2024.
In the $1 million Pegasus Turf, Spirit of St Louis edged Integration by a neck.
The 6-year-old gelding ran 1 1/8 miles on turf in 1:44.50, just off the track record of 1:44.45 set by last year’s winner Warm Heart. He paid $17.80 to win at 7-1 odds.
Spirit of St Louis was ridden by Tyler Gaffalione and trained by Chad Brown, who won the Eclipse Award as the nation’s outstanding trainer earlier in the week.
Chasing the Crown was third.
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| Pegasus World Cup 2025 |
What is the Pegasus World Cup.?
The Pegasus World Cup is an American Thoroughbred Thoroughbred race whose first Race was held on January 28, 2017, at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida.
$12 million prize money for its inaugural running season.
The Pegasus World Cup exceed the Dubai World Cup as the Richest Horse Race in the world.
This Grade 1 race, run over 1⅛ miles on dirt, has established itself as one of North America’s premier winter racing events, attracting some of the sport’s biggest stars.
Participants convey 124 pounds (56 kg) with a three-pound recompense for fillies and female horses. Horses that keep running without the utilization of the pre-race medication furosemide get a remittance of 5 pounds.
The race is named for the legendary stallion ( Pegasus ), a 110-foot statue of which remains at Gulfstream Park.
When and Where Will the Pegasus Be Held?
The Pegasus World Cup 2025 will take place on January 25, 2025, at Gulfstream Park, a renowned racetrack in Florida. Known for its vibrant atmosphere, Gulfstream Park has hosted the Pegasus World Cup since its inception and continues to be a prominent venue for major racing events in the U.S.
Pegasus World Cup Purse/ Prize Fund.
Previously it is said, in the Horse Racing World, the Dubai World Cup is known as
"The World Richest Horse race" with the total purse $10 million, but not now in the presence of Pegasus World Cup.
In the Inaugural season of 2017 Pegasus Horse race world, the overall Pegasus World Cup Purse was $ 12 million, and now it is increased to $ 16 million in 2018 Pegasus world cup.
Interestingly, each year after that saw a sharp decrease in funds, so in 2019, it dropped to $9 million and in 2020, it dropped again to $3 million.
— Now in the 2025 Horse Race event: White Abarrio won the $3 million Pegasus World Cup with a dominant performance at Gulfstream.
Pegasus World Cup 2025 Entries/Contenders, odds
Prg # Horse Odds Projections
1 Mixto 10-1
2 Saudi Crown 9-2
3 Newgrange 20-1
4 White Abarrio 3-1
5 Crupi 15-1
6 Stronghold 10-1
7 Steal Sunshine 30-1
8 Vitality 50-1
9 Mystik Dan 8-1
10 Skippylongstocking 10-1
11 Locked 5-2
12 Power Squeeze 30-1
Pegasus World Cup Past Winners List by year, History, records.
Year - Winners -- Jockey -- Trainer -- Time -- Prize Money
2025— White Abarrio Irad Ortiz Jr. Saffie Joseph Jr. 1:48.05 $3 Million
2024—National Treasure Flavien Prat Bob Baffert 1:50.51 $2.9 million
2023— Art Collector Junior Alvarado William I. Mott 1:49.44 $2.9 million
2022 — Life Is Good Irad Ortiz Jr. Todd A. Pletcher 1:48.91 $3 million
2021 — Knicks Go Joel Rosario Brad H. Cox 1:47.89 $3 million
2020 — Mucho Gusto Irad Ortiz Jr. Bob Baffert 1:48.85 $3 million
2019 — City of Light Javier Castellano -- Michael W. McCarthy 1:47.71 $9 million
2017 — Arrogate Mike E. Smith - Bob Baffert 1:46.83 -- $12 million
Which jockey has won the most Pegasus World Cups?
Irad Ortiz Jr. leads all jockeys with two wins at the event. He rode Todd Pletcher trainee Life Is Good to victory in 2022 and he helped Bob Baffert get a win at the 2020 Pegasus World Cup with Mucho Gusto.
How many times has Bob Baffert won the Pegasus World Cup as a trainer?
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has earned a record three wins at this event. The first happened in 2017 when he helped Arrogate win the inaugural race. In 2020, Mucho Gusto crossed the finish line first to get him his second win. His success at the Pegasus World Cup continued in 2024 when the 2023 Preakness champion National Treasure claimed victory on the dirt.
What is the record for the fastest time at the Pegasus World Cup?
The fastest time recorded during the nine-furlong race was in 2017 when Arrogate ran a quick 1:46.83, beating Shaman Ghost by 4 3/4 lengths.
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