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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.
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. [10]
[2] American Pharoah came into the Classic off a two-month layoff and was also facing older horses for the first time. [3] The Breeders' Cup Classic was first run in 1984, whereas the last Triple Crown winner before American Pharoah was Affirmed in 1978. Therefore, 2015 was the first opportunity for a horse to complete what journalists dubbed ...
But after winning the first horse racing Triple Crown since 1978 atop American Pharoah, Espinoza is increasing that donation 10-fold. ... Smaller crowd on hand to watch American Pharoah's Triple try
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.
NEW YORK (AP) -- American Pharoah was made the early 3-5 favorite Wednesday to win the Belmont Stakes and become horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 37 years. The Kentucky Derby and ...
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.
OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) -- When the music played about 10 minutes before the start of the Haskell Invitational, there was no way American Pharoah could lose. As the Triple Crown winner stepped onto ...