OZONE PARK, N.Y.– Life Is Good was great winning the $3 million Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 29 at Gulfstream Park. Life Is Great need only be good to beat an average field of 3-year-olds in Sunday’s $100,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at Aqueduct. The Winkfield, at seven furlongs, was rescheduled for Sunday after it was lost when the Jan. 30 card here was canceled due to snow. The original Winkield cast numbered eight. But three of those entrants ran in the Spectacular Bid Stakes on Jan. 28 at Laurel Park, including Witty, who won that race. With no new faces entered, the Winkfield will go with five starters. It has been carded as the fourth of nine races. :: Get Daily Racing Form Past Performances – the exclusive home of Beyer Speed Figures Life Is Great has one win from six starts. That win came last Nov. 20, when he took a seven-furlong maiden race by 6 3/4 lengths. The runner-up, Sky and Sand, came back to dominate a maiden race at Oaklawn Park. Life Is Great, meanwhile, shipped to Laurel on Dec. 26 and was sent off the 3-5 favorite in the Heft Stakes. He didn’t have the smoothest of trips and wound up third behind 59-1 winner Shake Em Loose. “He got pinned on the fence,” said Bob Klesaris, who trains Life Is Great. “He had to make three runs. I don’t know it’s advantageous for a 3-year-old to have to make three runs.” Klesaris has seen improvement in Life Is Great, a son of Tapiture. Early in his career, Life Is Great “wanted to go as far as he could as fast as he could,” Klesaris said. Lately, the horse has been more manageable and able to settle. “It’s taken a while to harness the horse’s speed,” Klesaris said. “He’s learning.” Life Is Great ran into some pretty good horses in some of his early maiden races. High Oak, to whom Life Is Great finished third on debut at Saratoga, won the Grade 2 Saratoga Special. American Xperiment, who beat Life Is Great in his second start, is Grade 1-placed. Mo Donegal, who beat Life Is Great by seven lengths in October, came back to win the Grade 2 Remsen and was entered to make his 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park. Life Is Great is owned by Esteban Vargas. So is Winkfield entrant Hagler, who is trained by Rudy Rodriguez. The two are uncoupled but do have complementary styles. Hagler has been a front-runner and he adds blinkers on Sunday while cutting back a furlong after finishing fifth in the one-mile Jerome. Hagler may benefit from the shorter field in that some of the defections from the original cast had speed. “I breezed him a quarter this morning and that’s why I put the blinkers on him, to sharpen him out of the gate,” Rodriguez said Friday morning.” [Life Is Great] is okay. Maybe I set the race up for him if somebody chases me.” Dance Code may have the speed to entertain Hagler early. Beast Or Famine, second in a stakes at Laurel last Nov. 13, and Mondello, a debut winner here on Nov. 27, complete the field.