FROM OFF THE PACE: Skippylongstocking gets his Grade 1

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Looking back on it, Saturday’s Pegasus World Cup might be seen as a sort of celebration of old-timers’ day as the three seven-year-olds in the field of twelve – Skippylongstocking, White Abarrio, and Full Serrano – finished 1-2-3 in a rousing edition of the $3 million race. Running down stablemate White Abarrio, winner of last year’s Pegasus, in the final sixteenth, Skippylongstocking won his first G1 in a dozen tries, powering ahead to prevail by 1 ¾ lengths in his fourth appearance in the nine-furlong race. After settling near the rear of the bulky field, jockey Tyler Gaffalione got the son of Exaggerator in gear...