At The Races to broadcast Pegasus World Cup

Pay-television channel At The Races has acquired live and exclusive rights in the UK to the inaugural edition of the Pegasus World Cup horse-racing event.

The event takes place tomorrow (Saturday) at the Gulfstream Park racecourse in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

At The Races’ coverage will begin at 5.15pm GMT. At 10.42pm, coverage will switch to the feed provided by the event’s exclusive rights-holder in the US, the NBC Sports Group division of media company NBCUniversal.

The Pegasus World Cup has a purse of $12m (€11.2m) and has been billed as the world’s most lucrative thoroughbred horse race.