A Kentucky Derby winner who also claimed the Dubai World Cup is the star attraction in the first race at Royal Ascot. [Read the full story here]
When Craig Bandoroff set out to develop one of Kentucky’s leading farms and consignment companies in 1990, he wanted to work at the highest end of the market, and desired to trade the best quality bloodstock. That’s why he named his farm Denali Stud–a term meaning “the great one,” coined by Alaskan Eskimos to describe […]
When Animal Kingdom makes his final start on June 18 at Royal Ascot in the Queen Anne Stakes, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner will have overcome an incredible amount of adversity to compete in arguably the most prestigious meet in the world. Read more and watch the interview with Craig Bandoroff, owner Denali Stud
OVERVIEW Already a Group One winner in the USA and Dubai, Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux) is set to retire to Arrowfield Stud after a tilt at the Queen Anne Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) at next week’s Royal Ascot meeting. Trained in the US by Graham Motion, Animal Kingdom was second on his debut at Arlington over […]
World Cup, Derby winner breezes five panels at Lambourn in last drill of his career. In what is expected to be the last workout of his career, Animal Kingdom breezed five furlongs in 1:03 with his dedicated workmate over the uphill Polytrack surface near David Lanigan’s yard in Lambourn, England June 12. Trainer Graham Motion […]
Craig and Holly Bandoroff have been on the Animal Kingdom bandwagon from day one, when the son of Leroidesanimaux foaled at their Denali Stud near Paris, Ky., on March 20, 2008. They raised the colt for Barry Irwin’s Team Valor and entered him in the 2009 Keeneland September yearling sale, where he was bought back […]
Gr.1 Kentucky Derby and Gr.1 Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom will write his most historic chapter on 18th June at Royal Ascot, when he becomes the first Kentucky Derby winner to run at Ascot since Triple Crown winner Omaha in 1936. And yet his celebrated story actually begins at the picturesque Denali Stud in […]
Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom will write his most historic chapter on June 18 at the Royal Ascot race meet in England when he becomes the first Kentucky Derby winner to run at Ascot since Triple Crown winner Omaha in 1936. And yet his celebrated story actually begins at the picturesque Denali Stud […]
Trainer Graham Motion reported via Twitter that Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) winner Animal Kingdom completed a four-furlong gallop in :52 Thursday, May 9 at Lambourn. Animal Kingdom, by Leroidesanimaux, is preparing for a start at Royal Ascot, most likely in the June 18 Queen Anne Stakes (Eng-I), a one-mile race. Team Valor and Arrowfield Stud’s Animal Kingdom also is entered in […]
Graham Motion, the trainer of Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom, decided after walking the course at Ascot this week that the Royal meeting’s opening race over a mile will be the Kentucky-bred’s target in his career finale on June 18. “We had discussed the possibility of either the Queen Anne Stakes or the Prince […]
