THE success or failure of the Pegasus World Cup Invitational depends on attracting two or three of the world’s best dirt horses – who are possibly stopping in on their way to the breeding shed – and that those horses give their running.

It worked, after a fashion, in its first two editions – with Arrogate and Gun Runner top-class in victory – if rather less so this year, the race taking place at Gulfstream Park in Florida last weekend.