HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Difficult trips in their last races didn’t dampen the enthusiasm trainers Chad Brown and Graham Motion have for their respective runners Program Trading and Test Score. Both horsemen will be looking for a little better racing luck when Program Trading and Test Score head a competitive field of 12 entered in the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. This is the eighth running of this race under this moniker; the race was previously run as the Gulfstream Park Turf. Program Trading, a 6-year-old ridgling by Lope de Vega, is a three-time Grade 1 winner but with only 10 races under his belt through four racing seasons, Brown and owner Seth Klarman believe Program Trading has more in the tank. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  Further, they hope to erase the memory of last November’s Breeders’ Cup Mile, when Program Trading got stopped cold in the stretch and finished 10th, 5 1/4 lengths behind Notable Speech. Flavien Prat, on Program Trading that day, was following Notable Speech, but went around him when he thought Notable Speech was going to get stuck behind the pacesetting One Stripe. When One Stripe came off the rail, it left room for Notable Speech to get through under William Buick. “As soon as he moved outside that horse, the rail opened for Notable Speech and then the horse that came off the rail and let Notable Speech through got in our way,” Brown said. Brown also believes that the mile is “a little sharp for him. He can do it, but he’s best a little farther.” The Pegasus World Cup Turf is conducted at 1 1/8 miles. Program Trading is 2 for 3 at that distance, including Grade 1 victories in the Old Forester Turf Classic at Churchill Downs in May 2024 and the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby in December 2023. Prat will ride Program Trading from post 2. Test Score won the Grade 1 Belmont Derby at 1 1/8 miles last July and the Grade 2 Twilight Derby at that distance at Santa Anita in October. If not for getting stopped twice in the final furlong of the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby last November, Motion believes Test Score – who finished third, beaten a half-length under Juan Hernandez – would have won that race, too. “Anyone can watch his last race and they would have to think he should have won,” Motion said. “It was brutal.” On Saturday, Test Score breaks from the rail and will be reunited with Manny Franco, who has been aboard for three of his four career victories. One Stripe, also trained by Motion, was the horse who opened up the rail for Notable Speech and got in Program Trading’s Way in the BC Mile. That day, One Stripe was uncharacteristically on the lead after breaking from the rail. One Stripe, a South Africa-bred horse, came from off the pace to win a one-mile allowance race in style here Dec. 26. “He ran much more like the horse I think he is the other day,” Motion said. John Velazquez rode One Stripe in that allowance but had a commitment to ride Cugino, the Grade 2 Red Smith winner, for Shug McGaughey, in this race. The South African-based jockey Gavin Lerena, who rode One Stripe to four victories in South Africa, is in for the ride. Cugino has a win and three seconds in four trips at Gulfstream. Following his victory in the Red Smith, Cugino finished second, beaten just three-quarters of a length by Wolfie’s Dynaghost, in the Grade 3 Fort Lauderdale, a race in which the winner set a North American record of 1:43.42 for 1 1/8 miles on turf. “I’ve been around the track a long time. I’ve never seen anything that fast,” said Shug McGaughey, trainer of Cugino. “The way the track was, it was hard to catch up.” Prat, who rode Cugino in his last two starts, is committed to ride Program Trading, so Velazquez has the mount. McGaughey also sends out Fort Washington, who for the second straight year has post 12 in this race. Last year, Fort Washington drew in off the also-eligible list and finished a late-closing fifth under Junior Alvarado, who has been on him ever since. Beach Gold and Chasing the Crown, third and fifth in the Fort Lauderdale, are back in this race. Major Dude finished sixth in last year’s Pegasus World Cup Turf after a troubled trip. Major Dude broke a seven-race losing streak winning the Artie Schiller Stakes at Aqueduct last October. Trainer Todd Pletcher entered Major Dude in the Fort Lauderdale but had to scratch him when the horse developed a fever. There is a sizeable California-based contingent here, led by Call Sign Seven, winner of the Grade 2 Seabiscuit at Del Mar, and Cabo Spirit, who won the Grade 3 San Gabriel on the front end. Astronomer, second in both of those races, also is here. Almendares, fifth in the Seabiscuit, is in for this race. Balnikhov is one deep on the also-eligible list. Trainer Phil D’Amato said he would like to run in this race but will run him in the Grade 3 William McKnight earlier on the card if he doesn’t get in. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.