Cafe Pharoah
American Pharoah – Mary’s Follies, by More Than Ready
Bred in Kentucky by Paul Pompa ($475,000 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. 2-year-old purchase by Narvick International, for Koichi Nishikawa)
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DRF Past Performances
Multiple Grade 1 winner McKinzie will stand at Gainesway in Lexington, Ky., upon his eventual retirement from racing, the farm announced Monday evening. The 5-year-old son of Street Sense is targeting the Grade 1 Runhappy Metropolitan Handicap – a race with a stallion-making reputation – on July 4 at Belmont Park as he continues his campaign.
Gamine stole the show on Belmont Stakes Day by devastating the field in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes by 18 3/4 lengths, earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 110. Her time for the mile was 1:32.55, a stakes record and just off Najran’s track record of 1:32.24, set in 2003.
The 2019 freshman sire class in North America, with Triple Crown winner American Pharoah leading a bevy of champions and major winners, was lauded as a historically strong class even before its first runners hit the track. The group lived up to its billing last year, with 12 graded/group stakes winners, led by a pair of Breeders’ Cup winners. Turning the corner into 2020, the class has continued to shine in major events.
Man o’ War, considered by many to be the greatest racehorse of all time, won the Belmont Stakes a century ago this spring, then went on to sire three winners of America’s oldest classic event. Fittingly, the broodmare sire of this year’s Belmont Stakes winner, Tiz the Law, is Tiznow, Man o’ War’s most prominent direct male-line descendant remaining at stud.
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In 2003, Sackatoga Stable and trainer Barclay Tagg made an unlikely run at the Triple Crown with Funny Cide, a New York-bred gelding from the first crop of his sire, Distorted Humor. Funny Cide won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes before finishing third in the Belmont Stakes on a sloppy track.
Tapit, the most successful sire in the modern history of the Belmont Stakes, is an imposing specimen whose coat has gone snow white with age. His white-hot son Constitution, who has this year’s Belmont favorite from his first crop, is a racy contrast in bright bay. Bernardini’s dark coat is unmarked as he strides by like a panther. The sturdy Honor Code is a darker shade, nearly black, but his dark coat is splashed with chrome.
Belmont Stakes favorite Tiz the Law was bred in New York by Randy Gullatt and Steve Davison’s Twin Creeks Farm. With a victory in the Belmont, Tiz the Law could provide a boost in the value of that operation’s two half-siblings to him. They are both by the young New York sire Mission Impazible.
Super Saver gave trainer Todd Pletcher his first Kentucky Derby victory in May of 2010. Meanwhile, waiting back in the wings was the older Quality Road, whom Pletcher saddled later that month to win the prestigious Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park.
