Multiple Grade 1 winner Cyberknife will try to emulate his sire, Gun Runner, by closing out his career with a victory in Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) at Gulfstream Park.

The favorites in the three leading open stakes at Parx on Tuesday figure to be strongly backed.

Odds-on favorites captured both stakes at Belmont Park on Monday's observed Independence Day holiday, with Gufo kicking off things by getting back in the win column for the first time this year in the $150,000 Grand Couturier S. over 1 1/2 miles on the turf.

Mind Control employed more aggressive tactics to prevail over the 2-5 Firenze Fire in the $250,000 John A. Nerud S. (G2), while Original foiled the even-money Public Sector thanks to a soft lead in the $100,000 Manila S.