2025 Pegasus World Cup odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets for the $3 million race

The Todd Pletcher-trained Locked will look to become horse racing’s newest millionaire on Saturday when he leaves the starting gate in one of North America’s richest races, the 2025 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park outside of Miami. A 4-year-old son of Gun Runner, Locked has earned $935,650 in his career. The Pegasus World Cup, which has a purse of $3 million, is the fourth-richest race in North America, behind only the Kentucky Derby, Breeders’ Cup Classic and Breeders’ Cup Turf. Locked has been installed as the lukewarm 5-2 morning-line favorite in the 2025 Pegasus World Cup odds. White Abarrio (3-1), Saudi Crown (9-2) and 2024 Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan (8-1) round out the top-four choices among the 12 Pegasus World Cup horses. Post time is 5:40 p.m. ET. The latest 2025 Pegasus World Cup forecast is calling for sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-60s.

With several of the country’s best dirt horses set to enter the starting gate on Saturday, you’ll want to see what racing reporter and insider Michelle Yu has to say before making any 2025 Pegasus World Cup picks, given that she correctly picked the winner of last year’s Pegasus World Cup.

Few people in racing are as well-connected as Yu. An on-air host and reporter who has provided racing analysis for TVG, HRTV and the Breeders’ Cup, Yu has spent a lifetime in racing. Prior to her television career, she worked for trainers Steve Asmussen and Ron Moquett. She also is married to Santa Anita-based trainer Ryan Hanson.

Yu also has tremendous handicapping chops. In a wide-open Kentucky Derby in 2021, she gave out Medina Spirit, who crossed the finish line first, as the winner at 12-1. In Pool 5 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager three years ago, she suggested a play on All Other 3-Year-Olds, which cashed at a whopping 18-1 when Rich Strike won the Derby.

Last year she correctly called National Treasure to win the Pegasus World Cup, predicted Stronghold’s upset win in the Santa Anita Derby and smashed the exacta in the Apple Blossom Handicap. On the Belmont Stakes undercard, she nailed National Treasure’s win in the Met Mile and had the winner and exacta in the Woody Stephens Stakes. She closed out the year by hitting the exacta in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Anyone who has followed her is way up.

For the 2025 Pegasus World Cup, Yu has made her picks and constructed her bets

One surprise: Yu is completely fading Locked, even though he is the 5-2 favorite. “If Locked drew better, he would be my top pick, but I hate his draw and he still needs to improve,” Yu told SportsLine. Yu is not including Locked in any of her wagers.

Instead, Yu is high on a double-digit longshot who is “getting a chance to play with the big boys.” She is including this horse in her 2025 Pegasus World Cup bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see her picks before locking in any of your own.

So what double-digit longshot is a must-back in the Pegasus World Cup 2025? And how has Yu constructed her wagers? … Join SportsLine right now to get Michelle Yu’s 2025 Pegasus World Cup picks and bets, all from the racing insider who nailed the winner of last year’s Pegasus!