HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Knicks Go will play his favorite game, “catch me if you can,” once again Saturday at Gulfstream Park when putting his imposing speed on display against 11 rivals in the fifth running of the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational. The Grade 1, nine-furlong Pegasus World Cup is the final event on an outstanding day of racing at Gulfstream Park that also features the Grade 1, $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf and five other graded stakes. Post time for the 12-race program is 11:40 a.m. Nobody could catch up to Knicks Go at any point in his three starts in 2020, a season that culminated with a pair of track-record, wire-to-wire performances at Keeneland – a 10 1/4-length allowance score and his 3 1/2-length victory in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. Both wins came after Knicks Go was transferred to trainer Brad Cox at the beginning of his 4-year-old campaign. Despite his amazing and seemingly sudden success last year, Korea Racing Authority’s Knicks Go is no flash in the pan. He was a Grade 1 winner at 2, dominating Keeneland’s Breeders’ Futurity in gate-to-wire fashion before going on to finish second behind Game Winner in the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, a big performance that began a streak of 10 consecutive losses that continued through the end of his 3-year-old season. But Knicks Go has been rejuvenated since teaming up with Cox, who is confident the son of Paynter will have no problem stretching out to 1 1/8 miles for the first time Saturday. “There’s no secret to what he’s going to do, to how he wins his races, speed is his weapon,” Cox said. “He’s had a lot of success at Keeneland with the shorter stretch, and it’s sort of the same thing at Gulfstream. So if he likes Gulfstream as much as Keeneland, we should be in good shape. “He’s training every bit as well leading up to this race as he was the Breeders’ Cup. His work last week was very good, and the one before that was incredible. So I’m expecting another big race out of him on Saturday.” Joel Rosario, who was aboard Knicks Go for each of his record-setting victories, has the mount once again. Knicks Go will break from post 4 in the Pegasus World Cup. The horse many believe has the best chance of upsetting the favorite, Code of Honor, did not fare as well at the draw. He’ll begin from post 10, far from ideal with such a short run to the first turn in nine-furlong races at Gulfstream Park. Code of Honor, the 2019 Travers and Jockey Gold Cup winner, captured the Grade 3 Westchester to kick off his 2020 season but went winless in four subsequent starts, closing the year with second-place finishes in the Grade 2 Kelso and Grade 1 Clark. Tyler Gaffalione will ride Code of Honor for the first time. “In the Clark, he was bottled up and by the time he got loose, the race was pretty much over,” McGaughey said. “In the Kelso, Chad’s horse [Complexity] kind of controlled what was going on. He came out of the Clark in good order and has trained really well all winter at Payson. “I’d rather not be way out there [post 10] going a mile and one-eighth here, and hopefully we’ll get some pace to run at, but there’s nothing I can do about either of those things.” Mr Freeze finished second behind Mucho Gusto in the 2020 Pegasus, then came back to register an easy victory in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Mile, one of his two wins on the season along with the Grade 2 Fayette at Keeneland. He too is poorly drawn, in post 11, with John Velazquez aboard. :: Pegasus World Cup 2021: Contenders, entries, results, news, odds, picks, past performances, and more. “He has plenty of gas, so he can get out and be where he needs to be,” said trainer Dale Romans, who also sends out Coastal Defense in the Pegasus. “And he loves this track.” Tax and Sleepy Eyes Todd are both coming off Grade 3 wins here. Tax led throughout to capture the 1 1/16-mile Harlan’s Holiday, while the barnstorming Sleepy Eyes Todd rallied from far back to upset Firenze Fire in the seven-furlong Mr. Prospector. Tax, like Mr Freeze, also competed in the Pegasus a year ago, finishing a distant ninth after an unlucky trip. Some attributed the disappointing effort to the fact he raced without Lasix, as will be the case for all 12 Pegasus starters on Saturday. “He’s not a bleeder, he won without Lasix as a 2-year-old,” trainer Danny Gargan said. “He stumbled at the start and after that, it was all over from there. The way he’s training, I expect him to run a big race.” Sleepy Eyes Todd has raced at nine different racetracks with nine different jockeys in his last nine starts. He added the Mr. Prospector to earlier wins last season in the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic and Fayette at Keeneland. He figures to be forwardly placed stretching back around two turns and breaking from the rail under yet another new rider, Jose Ortiz. Independence Hall, Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile runner-up Jesus’ Team, Kiss Today Goodbye, Pimlico Special winner Harpers First Ride, Last Judgment, and Math Wizard complete the field.