Global Campaign may resume training for Pegasus World Cup

Global Campaign is headed to stud at WinStar Farm in 2021, but before then it’s possible he’ll have one more start in the Jan. 23 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park.

Global Campaign finished third at 25-1 on Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland, earning a career-high 106 Beyer Speed Figure. The 4-year-old Curlin colt got a 104 in winning the Grade 1 Woodward in his prior start.

“The Pegasus is something that’s definitely under consideration,” Hunter Rankin, president of Sagamore Farm, said early Monday.

Rankin said Global Campaign, co-owned by Sagamore and WinStar, is “spending the next week or so at WinStar” in Versailles, where prospective breeders are being invited to inspect stallions as the Keeneland November sales take place nearby. “After that, he may go back into training” at Churchill Downs in Louisville with Stan Hough, added Rankin.

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Meanwhile, Sagamore in Maryland is undergoing a dispersal of all its Thoroughbred breeding and racing stock as its owner, Under Armour founder Kevin Plank, looks to liquidate his equine holdings. A formal announcement of the dispersal was made last week.

“Our interest has been winding down in the last year and will continue to wind down in rapid fashion,” Rankin said.