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AMERICAN PHAROAH
Pioneerof the Nile - Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman)
1
st
Del Mar Futurity [
Gr.1
],
by 4¾ lengths
1
st
FrontRunner Stakes [
Gr.1
],
by 3¼ lengths
1
st
Breeders’ Cup Classic [
Gr.1
],
by 6½ lengths
1
st
Kentucky Derby [
Gr.1
],
by a length
1
st
Preakness Stakes [
Gr.1
],
by 7 lengths
1
st
Belmont Stakes [
Gr.1
],
by 5½ lengths
1
st
Haskell Invitational Stakes [
Gr.1
],
by 2¼ lengths
1
st
Arkansas Derby [
Gr.1
],
by 8 lengths
1
st
Rebel Stakes [
Gr.2
],
by 6¼ lengths
eclipse award
winner at 2
recorded 10 consecutive triple-diGit beyers
culminatinGwith a 120 in the classic.
triple crown
winner at 3
"he's simply like michael Jordan….he stays in the air longer than
any horse, and you get the feeling that there's not one gear left,
but he may have two, three or four gears,"
I can’t remember a horse starting a
triple-digit run as a 2-year-old and keeping
it up to the fall of his 3-year-old season
dick Jerardi,
DRF
Bloodstock Agent / Clocker
Gary young
before the Kentucky Derby
American Pharoah ran the fastest final quarter-mile (24.32 seconds, or 24⅕
when converted to the traditional fifths of a second for comparison purposes)
of any Triple Crown-winning Belmont Stakes. The next two fastest final
quarters were 24⅗ each (Gallant Fox in 1930 and Count Fleet, who won the
Belmont by 25 lengths, in 1943). Secretariat’s legendary 31-length win in the
1973 Belmont recorded the fourth fastest final quarter, 25 flat.
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary
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