January 23rd, 2020 BY Tom Pedulla
Gulfstream Park will provide a fun-filled backdrop for the first major event of the new racing calendar when it hosts the Pegasus World Cup Invitational series on Saturday.
The popular South Florida track has carded nine stakes races, six of them graded, worth $5.2 million in purses. The star-studded afternoon will culminate in the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational and the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes.
Tom Pedulla interviewed Dean Reeves, chairman of Reeves Young, a contracting company in Atlanta, who is part of the ownership group of Pegasus contender Tax. The Arch gelding was claimed for $50,000 as a 2-year-old and went on to finish fourth in the Belmont Stakes before winning the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets. He enters the Pegasus with $828,300 in earnings.
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