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SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here PHAROAH MOPS UP IN THE SLOP RUMBLE OF THUNDER For the second year in a row, the third time in the Saturday=s G1 Al Shaqab Lockinge S. at Newbury span of four years and for the ninth time in the last 18 may have looked wide open on paper, but in hindsight years, the world of Thoroughbred racing and the sports Richard Hannon had the race in an iron grasp with world at large is on the brink of a Triple Crown. Sent Night of Thunder (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) edging out off the 9-10 favorite to follow up on his hard-fought Toormore (Ire) (Arakan) for a one-two for the stable and defeat of Firing Line (Line of David) and >TDN Rising a fourth edition since 2010 for Hannon Sr. and Jr. Star= Dortmund (Big Brown) in the GI Kentucky Derby combined. Sent off the 11-4 joint-favorite, last year=s May 2, Zayat Stables= American Pharoah (Pioneerof the 2000 Guineas hero, who was most recently second to Nile) came through for his backers with a much easier Charm Spirit (Ire) success in the GI Xpressbet.com Preakness S. before a (Invincible Spirit record 131,680 ultimately rain-soaked fans at {Ire}) in Ascot=s Baltimore=s Pimlico Race Course. G1 Queen Elizabeth The homebred, who Zayat bought back for $300,000 II S. on Champions at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, will attempt to Day in October, become the 35th horse in history to complete the raced in a share of sequence and the first since Affirmed outlasted Alydar sixth early up the to secure the 1978 Triple Crown. The Preakness score middle of the track was the sixth overall for an increasingly introspective as the pace proved trainer Bob Baffert and the fourth of his four Kentucky strong. Sent to the Derby winners to earn the right to press on to the Night of Thunder (rail) outlasts Toormore in far rail to challenge GI Belmont S. with a Triple Crown on the line (Real the Lockinge Racing Post passing the quarter Quiet, 1997; Silver Charm, 1998; War Emblem, 2002). pole, the chestnut For jockey Victor Espinoza, who partnered with the was soon in front and battled gamely into the headwind latter, it was his third Preakness victory and second in a to hold off his barnmate by a neck. AHe=s a big type and row. He becomes the first rider in history to be in the he had a puff when he went to win his race, so there saddle for three Triple Crown attempts, and will have has got to be more to come,@ rider James Doyle said. ridden the post-time favorite in six consecutive Classics AThis is just the start of his campaign. He has a great when American Pharoah takes his place at Big Sandy in attitude--he went down to the start like an old three weeks= time. hunter--and full credit to Mr. Hannon, who has done a AGod willing, he comes out of his race well and we fantastic job with him.@ Cont. p13 could be talking about history,@ Ahmed Zayat commented following the win. AHow could I be more happy than that? This is a dream come true.@ Cont. p3 Assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes and a groom lead American Pharoah in through the raindrops following the Preakness Horsephotos Fame and Power, Graded Stakes placed last time out in the Lexington Stakes (G3), drew clear by 3 in the Sir Barton Stakes just a day after Irish Jasper captured the Miss Preakness Stakes (G3). $10,000 lf LGB, LLC 2015 / Photos: David Joseph 2015 / Photos: LLC LGB, Contact Garrett O’Rourke or Erin Frey • (859) 272-7629 • fax (859) 272-5361 • www.juddmonte.com IN THIS ISSUE Graded Stakes Results The Preakness undercard featured a trio of graded stakes, highlighted by Ironicus (Distorted Humor)’s victory in the GII Longines Dixie S. In New York, the President & Co-Publisher: Barry Weisbord [email protected] speedy La Verdad (Yes It’s True) wired the field to score @barryweisbord a gritty victory in Belmont’s GIII Vagrancy H. 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Instead he was the second choice to Skyway (Sky The Genesis of a Dream... Mesa) in the Sent to Zayat homebred Pioneerofthe Nile during his GI Del Mar second year at stud in 2011, Littleprincessemma Futurity Sept. 3, (Yankee Gentleman), a one-time $250,000 Keeneland but there were no September acquisition by Team Zayat, produced the mistakes this colt who would come to be known as American time, as he Pharoah Feb. 2, 2012. The decision was ultimately overcame the made to test the market with their colt, and he was inside post to Horsephotos entered as part of the Taylor Made consignment at the romp by 4 3/4 2013 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale. At the end of the day, lengths over Calculator (In Summation), who would go the Zayat braintrust decided they could not part with on to flatter the form via his future performances. their asset, took him home, turned him over to Bob American Pharoah pummeled Calculator by 3 1/4 front- Baffert and the rest, as they say, is history. running lengths in the GI FrontRunner S. at Santa Anita Sept. 27 and would have been a clear favorite for the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile, but the injury bug struck and it was the end of the line for American Pharoah--for 2014, in any event. Preakness S. cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/17/15 • PAGE 4 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Preakness S. cont. Despite getting a little worked up in the preliminaries While Dortmund and Firing Line were knocking each and despite having to deal with a draw less than other around in Southern California and while many of optimal, American Pharoah sat a stalking trip outside of his other peers were hard at work in the other corners his pacesetting stablemate Dortmund and Firing Line, of this country, American Pharoah was being brought was floated wide into the lane, but knuckled down and along slowly by Baffert and the colt registered just a worked his way past the latter to give the Zayats a half-dozen works ahead of his sophomore debut in the much-deserved win in the Run for the Roses following a GII Rebel S. at Oaklawn Park Mar. 14. Leaving nothing series of tough beats. to chance over a sloppy track and while trying to conserve energy for Reign Despite the Rain..