Jockey John Velazquez, who rode Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) to victory in the 2011 GI Kentucky Derby, will be aboard the colt when he makes his career finale at Royal Ascot in June, Team Valor International has announced. Velazquez has a history of success at Royal Ascot, having ridden at the meeting in 2000, 2009, […]
Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Animal Kingdom and Java’s War, who is being pointed to this year’s Louisville classic, are among the U.S.-trained horses being considered for Royal Ascot. On Wednesday, April 24, Royal Ascot announced early entries for its seven group I races that will be contested from June 18-22. […]
The Dubai World Cup (Gr. 1, 2000m) winner Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux)is more likely to contest the Queen Anne Stakes (Gr. 1, 1m) rather than the Price of Wales’s Stakes (Gr. 1, 1m2f) at Royal Ascot in June. “Your mile at Ascot is much more grueling than a mile in the States and a mile and […]
Classic winner and champion Animal Kingdom will stand for Aust$38,500 (about $40,000 in United States funds) when he enters stud this year at John Messara’s Arrowfield Stud in Australia. Animal Kingdom, the 2011 winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) who last month impressed with a victory in the $10 million […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Animal Kingdom is by Leroidesanimaux, a horse bred in Brazil, and he was produced by a German-bred mare named Dalicia. Late last year, an Australian stud farm acquired controlling rights to the horse, and Animal Kingdom will retire to stallion duty there sometime in the next year. Animal Kingdom’s breeder […]
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Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom continues to progress well towards a return to the races. The champion colt posted his third workout in 16 days on Wednesday at the Fair Hill training center in Maryland. Trainer Graham Motion told the Daily Racing Form on Thursday that if Animal Kingdom continues to progress, he could be […]
Team Valor International’s champion Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}), winner of the 2011 GI Kentucky Derby, is progressing well towards an intended fall comeback. The chestnut, who was also second in last year’s GI Preakness S., sustained a stress fracture to his left hind leg this spring while preparing for an intended tilt at the $10-million […]
Animal Kingdom, winner of last year’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), resumed galloping on June 21 at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland as he moves toward another comeback. The son of Leroidesanimaux out of the Acatenango mare Dalicia missed 60 days of training to recover from a hairline fracture of the […]
Team Valor International’s Animal Kingdom, who had originally been scheduled to make his 2012 debut in the Feb. 25 Tampa Bay Stakes (gr. IIIT), will now run instead in a turf allowance race at Gulfstream Park Feb. 18. Last year’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner and 3-year-old male champion has not […]
