HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The California boys are coming to party near South Beach before the bacchanalia continues in Kentucky. Accelerate and City of Light have shipped in from Santa Anita to headline the $9 million Pegasus World Cup on Saturday at Gulfstream Park, which will be the final start for both before heading to stud. It’s appropriate that they are going off together. This will be the third race between the two, and they have split the prior two meetings. Both are coming off a victory in Breeders’ Cup races, Accelerate in the Classic, City of Light in the Dirt Mile. And no matter the outcome on Saturday, they will leave together on Sunday morning bound for Lane’s End Farm, where both will be first-year stallions when breeding season opens next month. Accelerate (9-5) is the slight favorite over City of Light (5-2) on the line of Jay Stone of Gulfstream Park. Gunnevera, second last time out in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, is 8-1 and the only other horse in the 12-horse field whose odds are in the single digits. The two favorites drew favorably in posts 3 (City of Light) and 5 (Accelerate) in a 1 1/8-mile race whose abrupt run to the first turn makes being drawn outside treacherous. Both seem to be primed for a top effort based on the way they have trained since the Breeders’ Cup. Accelerate, seeking his seventh win in his last eight starts, is “coming in as good as he can,” said trainer John Sadler. “I think he compares to how he was doing coming into the Pacific Classic,” Sadler said, referring to Accelerate’s 12 1/2-length romp in Del Mar’s signature race. “There’s really good spacing from his last race to this one.” City of Light arrived a week earlier than Accelerate and got in his final work over this track. “Settled in fine. He seems to enjoy shipping,” said trainer Michael McCarthy. Both should be forwardly placed in the early going. Accelerate appears to have a slight tactical advantage, being drawn outside his main rival. “My horse breaks well,” McCarthy said, “but, yes, preferably you’d like the horse to beat to be inside you.” Neither has ever raced here. In their only prior meetings, City of Light got the best of Accelerate on neutral ground going 1 1/8 miles in the Oaklawn Handicap, and then Accelerate evened the score in the Gold Cup at Santa Anita going 1 1/4 miles. “I don’t think he needs a particular surface,” Sadler said of Accelerate, who shipped to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill. “It’s more of an unknown. The last few years, I’ve gone to Oaklawn and Kentucky. I know those surfaces.” Gunnevera is the most-experienced horse at this track, with nine starts, four of those victories. Per usual, he is hoping his rivals go too fast too soon. Audible has won twice in three starts here, including last year’s Florida Derby, but was upset on a sloppy track here last time out. There is a 50 percent chance of rain Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Patternrecognition, the Cigar Mile winner, seeks his fourth straight win but is trying two turns for the first time and drew dreadfully in the outside post. Bravazo and Seeking the Soul were second and third last time out in the Clark Handicap at Churchill after finishing third and second behind City of Light in the Breeders’ Cup. Lightly raced Tom’s d’Etat makes his graded stakes debut while seeking his fifth straight win spread over 19 months. True Timber was second in the Cigar Mile in his last start. The unbeaten Mexican star Kukulkan faces the biggest test of his career following 14 victories. On speed figures, he is completely overmatched, but he landed superstar jockey Frankie Dettori. Something Awesome is making only his second start since May. Imperative, a 9-year-old gelding who has made nearly $3 million, was a badly beaten last in three of his last four races and deserves better than this folly. This edition of the Grade 1 Pegasus, the third annual, is the last of 12 races on a stakes-filled card that begins at 11:30 a.m. Eastern and is preceded by eight stakes, five graded, most notably the inaugural Pegasus Turf, which includes Breeders’ Cup Mile runner-up Catapult and two female invaders from overseas, Aerolithe from Japan and Magic Wand from Ireland. In addition to Accelerate and City of Light, the card includes two other Breeders’ Cup winners from last fall. Stormy Liberal, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, meets that race’s runner-up, World of Trouble, in the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint (race 3), and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner Shamrock Rose heads the Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie (race 7). Both the Pegasus and Pegasus Turf (race 11) will be shown live by NBC in a 90-minute telecast beginning at 4:30 p.m. Both races also will be broadcast live by Horse Racing Radio Network.