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American Pharoah (foaled February 2, 2012) is a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the American Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2015. He was the 12th Triple Crown winner in history, and in winning all four races, became the first horse to win the modern Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing.
The American Pharoah Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of September during the fall meet at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.A Grade I event, it is open to two-year-old horses and is held at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.
Before the final race, sportswriter Bob Ehalt of ESPN declared American Pharoah was competing for the "Grand Slam," coining the second configuration of the term which quickly became popular. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Pharoah won the Breeders' Cup Classic on October 31, 2015, and is the only horse to win this version of the Grand Slam.
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As the Triple Crown winner stepped onto the track for first race since sweeping the. OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) -- When the music played about 10 minutes before the start of the Haskell Invitational ...
Jockey Victor Espinoza has always donated 10 percent of his race winnings to cancer foundation City of Hope. But after winning the first horse racing Triple Crown since 1978 atop American Pharoah ...
Triple-crown winner American Pharoah was heavily favored for the race and won in a wire-to-wire performance. In doing so, he became the first horse to complete the Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing, consisting of America's four most prestigious races: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic.
A year after American Pharoah became the first horse since 1978 to win the Triple Crown, U.S. racing officials have struggled to build on that excitement.