The 2025 edition of the Pegasus World Cup Day at Gulfstream Park is Saturday, January 25th.

The event is the winter season’s first truly monumental day of racing and wagering.

Pegasus World Cup Day is one of the year’s premier days of Thoroughbred racing featuring a total seven Graded Stakes races with total purses of more than $5 million dollars.

The feature race is the 3 million dollar, Grade 1, Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes, which brings together many of the best older (4-year-olds and up) horses going 1 1/8 miles on the main track in a showdown with national implications.  

The Pegasus World Cup has a stellar eight-year history, including the recent versions of the race run under current conditions with a $3 million purse.

The inaugural running of the Pegasus in 2017 Won by ARROGATE featured a $12 million dollar purse.

The purse of the race topped out at $16.3 million when GUN RUNNER Won it in 2018, which was the final race of his career and came just days after he was honored as Horse of the Year for 2017.

To give you an indication of the importance of the Pegasus on the annual Grade 1 calendar, the Winner of Last year’s Pegasus World Cup– NATIONAL TREASURE, is expected to be named the Winner of the Eclipse Award for top older male of 2024.

In 2021 KNICKS GO Won the Pegasus and went on to Win the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar and was also named Horse of the Year.

NBC Sports will broadcast the featured races on national TV live from 4:30-6:30 p.m. ET.  Full-day coverage will be available on FanDuel TV.