LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY - MAY 04: White Abarrio during the morning training for the Kentucky Derby at ... [+] Churchill Downs on May 04, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) Getty ImagesNowhere is the schoolroom axiom more true than in the 2023 Pegasus World Cup: The bottom half of the class makes the top half of the class possible. It’s precisely those high-odds upset-makers in the bottom half of the (talent) class that you want to round out your exotics. Put differently, these are the people who had the truly-outta-nowhere 80-1 Rich Strike as the 2022 Derby winner in their exactas. Prior to that, he’d been impossible to bet, as he wasn’t in the race until Ethereal Road got scratched and Rich Strike was, as the next alternate, allowed to enter with the saddle-cloth number 21.

Source: Forbes January 28, 2023 23:13 UTC