HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Brad Cox will hold the upper hand when he sends out the undefeated Disco Time and Florida Derby winner Tappan Street against 10 rivals in Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park. The 10th running of the 1 1/8-mile Pegasus World Cup will highlight an outstanding 13-race program that also features the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf and $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf. First post on Saturday is 11 a.m. Disco Time will be the 8-5 morning-line favorite for the Pegasus World Cup, with Tappan Street listed as the third choice at 6-1. The race also features defending champion White Abarrio (4-1 on the morning line), who was scratched in the post parade just minutes before the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and has not started since finishing a troubled fifth in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga nearly five months ago.    Disco Time is perfect in five career starts, but will be getting a major class test jumping into Grade 1 company and also stretching out to 1 1/8 miles for the first time. Disco Time will break from the rail with Flavien Prat replacing Florent Geroux, who rode the Juddmonte homebred to all five previous wins. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  Tappan Street will make just his second start since upsetting likely Horse of the Year Sovereignty in the Grade 1 Florida Derby here 10 months ago. He is well drawn in post 7, with Luis Saez back in the irons following a one-race absence. White Abarrio, who must overcome a long layoff in his bid to become the first repeat winner of the Pegasus World Cup, finds himself facing yet another obstacle in drawing post 11 on Sunday. Historically, it's a tough starting point with the relatively short run to the first turn in 1 1/8-mile races over the main course. “Nothing we can do about the post position, it is what it is,” trainer Saffie Joseph said immediately after the draw. “He drew 11 and we have to deal with it. (Jockey) Irad (Ortiz) is the best at working out bad posts.” White Abarrio had his final work for the race here earlier Sunday, breezing a surprisingly slow half-mile in 51.77 seconds before easing up on the gallop out with regular rider Ortiz aboard. “We wanted to go quicker, but the workmate obviously didn’t set the right tempo,” Joseph said. "They were supposed to go 48 and they went :51. But I don’t think it will make a difference. The main thing was to get Irad on him to make sure he was happy with him. And he was.”   White Abarrio will be joined in the starting gate by stablemate Skippylongstocking, who will run for a record fourth consecutive year in the Pegasus World Cup. Skippylongstocking fared much better at Sunday’s draw; the announcement that he had drawn post 5 brought a rousing cheer from his connections in the crowd. Skippylongstocking, who finished third behind White Abarrio in the 2025 Pegasus, returned from a four-month layoff of his own to win the main local prep for the race, the Grade 3 Harlan’s Holiday, here on December 20. “There’s confidence that ‘Skippy’ can win the race,” Joseph said. “He’s had the right preparation. He’s had a prep. He finally got a good post in this race and hopefully he can take advantage of the draw.” The West Coast contingent for the 2026 Pegasus consists of 2024 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Full Serrano, Grade 1-placed Madaket Road, and British Isles, second behind odds-on Nevada Beach in the Grade 3 Native Diver at Del Mar in his 2025 finale. The remainder of the field includes Banishing, Poster, Captain Cook, Mika, and Brotha Keny.  Lightning Tones and Catalytic are on the also-eligible list. Trainers Chad Brown and Todd Pletcher have each won two of the first seven Pegasus World Cup Turf races and both will be well represented this year. Brown will send out morning-line favorite and three-time Grade 1 winner Program Trading, Pletcher will be represented by the four-time graded stakes winner Major Dude. Program Trading will break from post 2 under regular rider Flavien Prat, who is named to ride the morning-line favorite in all three Pegasus World Cup races. Program Trading will try to bounce back from a troubled 10th-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. Major Dude missed a scheduled prep in the Grade 2 Fort Lauderdale here last month, but owns the home court advantage over the majority of the field, having won two graded stakes over the course. He finished sixth while beaten three lengths by Brown’s Spirit of St. Louis after being forced to take up sharply while within easy striking distance of the leaders at midstretch in the 2025 Pegasus Turf. Sunday’s post position draw for the Pegasus Turf was not kind to Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey, whose two contenders, Cugino and Fort Washington, will begin from posts 10 and 12, respectively. Cugino is coming off arguably the best race of his career, a second-place finish behind Wolfie’s Dynaghost in last month’s Fort Lauderdale. Fort Washington is looking to improve on his late-striding fifth-place finish in the 2025 Pegasus Turf when also forced to overcome the disadvantage of breaking from post 12. The remainder of the field includes Test Score, Beach Gold, One Stripe, Almendares, Call Sign Seven, Cabo Spirit, Chasing the Crown and Astronomer.       The Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf will provide handicappers with a real challenge with an extremely wide-open field of 12 topped by the Grade 3 winner Whiskey Decision, a very tepid 9-2 favorite on the morning line.  Whiskey Decision is trained by Chad Brown, who won the inaugural edition of this event with Regal Glory in 2022. Other key contenders include In Our Time (5-1), Classic Q (6-1), Breath Away (8-1), Caitlinhergrtness (8-1) and Heredia (8-1). In Our Time, second in the Grade 1 Matriarch at Del Mar in her 2025 finale, finished third in this event a year ago and is one of two horses trainer Joseph entered in the race along with Movin’ On Up.  They will break from the extreme outside, in posts 11 and 12 respectively, barring any late scratches. The field also consists of outsiders Ready for Shirl, Heredia, Destino d’Oro, Proctor Street, Crevalle d’Oro and And One More Time. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.