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Much clearer versions of the Past Performances at the following links. All free.
Free Past Performances, – from Equibase
Free Past Performances – from Brisnet
Free Past Performances – from DRF
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Much clearer versions of the Past Performances at the following links. All free.
Free Past Performances, – from Equibase
Free Past Performances – from Brisnet
Free Past Performances – from DRF
American Pharaoh. I was sure this thread would be about Obama.
He’s still racing? Don’t triple crown winners normally retire to stud farm?
Final Quarter Faster Than Secretariat
Triple Crown winner Secretariat may have taken the 1973 Belmont by a record 31 lengths and in a record time of 2:24, but American Pharoah was faster to the finish over the final 440 yards. Big Red took 25 seconds; American Pharoah was .68 seconds quicker, going two furlongs in 24.32 seconds.
“He flew home the last quarter,” American Pharoah’s trainer Bob Baffert said June 7. “I’ve never had a horse like that. I’ve never seen a horse run like that. I wasn’t around for the Seattle Slews and Secretariats. But what we witnessed... I was pretty in awe.’
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/92491/final-quarter-faster-than-secretariat
He ended his career on the turf! (grass course)
American Pharoah in today’s Travers at Saratoga ping!
Thanks
Will be anxiously awaiting!
Looks like a good field this year, never mind AP.
Thanks for posting this. Should be quite a race.
Irish
"American Pharoah went off at 1-9, his winning margin measured 2 1/4 lengths and final time for Sunday's William Hill Haskell Invitational victory 1:47.95 seconds.
The official Equibase chart is a souvenir of sorts, the backup to horse racing fans who couldn't make it to Monmouth Park for a $2 win ticket. (It's only worth $2.20 at the window, by the way.)"
Video Replay here:
http://www.nbcsports.com/horse-racing/keen-ice-defeats-american-pharoah-travers-stakes
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has been beaten, losing to Keen Ice in the $1.6 million Travers Stakes before a stunned crowd Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.
American Pharoah came into the race as the overwhelming favorite but lost the lead entering the far turn and didn't have the energy to catch a charging Keen Ice on the homestretch.
The upset solidified Saratoga's reputation as the "Graveyard of Favorites." Only one of four Triple Crown winners has ridden in and won the Travers -- Whirlaway in 1941.
Keen Ice, trained by Dale Romans and ridden by Javier Castellano, won by three-quarters of a length. Castellano picked up his fifth career win in the Travers, and Keen Ice won for the second time in 11 career races.
The first Triple Crown winner in 37 years, American Pharoah had won eight straight races coming into the Travers, including the Haskell Invitational on Aug. 2. Three of the last four Crown winners failed to win their second race after the Belmont Stakes, including Secretariat in 1973 and Affirmed in 1978.
American Pharoah had not lost since his debut in August 2014.
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| Runner | Win | Place | Show |
| Keen Ice | $34.00 | $6.50 | $3.80 |
| A. Pharoah | $2.40 | $2.10 | |
| Frosted | $3.20 | ||
| $2 Exacta (7-2): $66.00 $2 Trifecta (7-2-6): $180.00 $2 Superfecta (7-2-6-1): $1,159.00 |
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Not much of a horseracing enthusiast but if there has ever been a more beautiful creature in the world, I would like to see it.
