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The median Dosage Index of contemporary North American thoroughbreds is estimated at 2.40 (the average figure being impossible to calculate because some horses have a Dosage Index of "infinity," a scenario which arises when a horse has only Brilliant and/or Intermediate chef-de-race influences in its Dosage Profile). The average Center of ...
American Pharoah crossed the finish line leading by 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths, with a winning time of 2:26.65 for the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (2,400 m) race. [77] His margin of victory was the fourth-largest ever for a Triple Crown winner at the Belmont. [75] American Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes to become the 12th winner of the US Triple Crown.
Others pointed to Smarty Jones' relatively unfavorable 3.40 Dosage Index as being a portent of his inability to successfully negotiate the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile Belmont distance (Birdstone's Dosage Index was 1.77; the lower the Dosage number, supposedly the better suited a horse is to longer races). Smarty Jones ran the opening mile and a quarter in ...
American Pharoah, ridden by Victor Espinoza, took the final turn very wide but had the lead by a head in the homestretch. [15] From there, he increased his lead, winning with a time of 2:03.02. Firing Line finished second, one length back; Dortmund took third, three lengths off the lead. Frosted and Danzig Moon rounded out the top five. [17]
The 2015 Belmont Stakes (known as the 147th Belmont Stakes presented by DraftKings for sponsorship reasons) was the 147th in the Belmont Stakes series. The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (2,400 m) race, known as the "test of the champion" and sometimes called the "final jewel" in thoroughbred horse racing's traditional Triple Crown series, was held on June 6, 2015, three weeks after the Preakness Stakes and ...
By JOHN DORN 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 ...
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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.