Recently named the World’s Best Racehorse of 2021 according to rankings by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, Knicks Go was the runaway choice for Horse of the Year and champion older dirt male.

The 2021 Horse of the Year and all the divisional champions will be revealed at a Santa Anita gala on Feb. 10, the Thursday night going into Super Bowl weekend.

For a horse as fast as Knicks Go, even the $5.4 million, 1 1/4-mile Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) can be turned into a jaunt around the racetrack.

After a pair of setbacks, multiple Grade 1 winner Knicks Go rebounded stylishly with a 10 1/4-length thrashing in Friday’s $300,000 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H. (G3).

Twice beaten since his Pegasus World Cup (G1) heroics, Knicks Go hopes to regain the winning thread in Friday night’s $300,000 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H. (G3).

A pair of Grade 1 events, the $1 million Metropolitan H. and $500,000 Ogden Phipps S., highlight a trio of graded stakes on the main track for older horses on Saturday’s Belmont Stakes Day undercard.