HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Cigar Mile winner Locked has been made the 5-2 morning-line choice among a full field of 12 horses drawn Sunday for Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park. The Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup will be the finale on an outstanding 13-race program that also includes the $1 million Pegasus Turf and $500,000 Filly and Mare Turf. Locked will have to overcome an unfavorable draw in the 1 1/8-mile Pegasus World Cup as he will break from post 11 with a short run to the clubhouse turn. That post has yielded just three winners from 51 starters (6 percent) in 1 1/8-mile races on the main track since the reconfiguration of the facility in 2006. The lightly raced Locked, who has won four of his last five starts including the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at 2 in 2023, will have his regular rider, John Velazquez, aboard. He is one of two horses trainer Todd Pletcher entered in the race along with the stretch-running Crupi (post 5). Locked’s chief rival in the Pegasus World Cup, 2023 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner White Abarrio, fared much better at Sunday’s draw. He will begin from post 4 under regular rider Irad Ortiz Jr. White Abarrio has had two starts, both at seven furlongs, since being reunited with trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. following his dull fifth-place finish in the 2024 Metropolitan Handicap.     :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day. White Abarrio is one of two key contenders Joseph entered in the Pegasus World Cup along with Skippylongstocking, who also did not fare well at the draw. He will break from post 10, which has had just a 7 percent success rate at this distance since 2006, although it is an improvement from last year when Skippylongstocking broke from post 12 in the Pegasus World Cup and was ultimately eased midway through the race. “White Abarrio drew well, that’s where we wanted to be, between four and seven,” Joseph said. “Skippy got 10, which is a whole lot better than 12 or post 13 he had in the Breeders’ Cup [Dirt Mile]. We’re going to take that and hopefully he can make the best of it.” Other winners and losers at the draw were Grade 1 winners Mixto, Saudi Crown, and Power Squeeze. The connections of Mixto and Saudi Crown had to be pleased after getting posts 1 and 2, respectively, while Alabama winner Power Squeeze, the lone filly in the lineup, will come away from the extreme outside in post 12. Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan will break from post 9. The remainder of the field in post position order includes longshots Newgrange (post 3); Stronghold (post 6); Steal Sunshine (post 7); and Vitality (post 8).  The Pegasus World Cup lost one of its key players just hours before the draw when trainer Todd Fincher announced that Senor Buscador, who finished second behind National Treasure in this event last year, would not run. Senor Buscador had blown out an easy half-mile in 49.84 seconds under jockey Junior Alvarado here earlier Sunday morning. “He worked really well but had a scope afterwards we weren’t happy with, and it’s not worth trying to run a horse in a race like that if he’s not 100 percent,” a disappointed Fincher said. “I don’t know what caused it, but these things happen.” Fincher said in light of the circumstances, Senor Buscador would be retired to stud. “He’s moving on to his next career,” Fincher said. “He’s been good to us, and we’re going to be good to him.” Senor Buscador, who used the 2024 Pegasus as a stepping-stone to his victory four weeks later in the $20 million Saudi Cup, will retire with seven wins in 23 starts and lifetime earnings of nearly $13 million for owner-breeder Joe Peacock Jr. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.