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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Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux) galloped approximately 2400m and appeared more relaxed than he had in his first two days of training at Meydan. The 2011 Kentucky Derby (Gr 1, 10f ) winner and American champion “is settling into the routine now,” said Alice Clapham, assistant to trainer Graham Motion and exercise rider. “He was very happy […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Thirteen horses were entered Monday in the Group 1, $10 million Dubai World Cup, while the other eight stakes races on Saturday’s program were drawn with post positions assigned as final preparations ramped up for the richest race card on the planet. If there was a surprise among the entries […]
Team Valor’s Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) emerged at 6:45 a.m. and was absolutely full of himself. With high action, the 2011 GI Kentucky Derby winner was all about getting down to business and likely went fast enough to record a time under normal American training conditions. Alice Clapham was aboard Animal Kingdom, and she had […]
Champions Animal Kingdom, Royal Delta, and Trinniberg lead an eight-horse American delegation set to fly to the United Arab Emirates, leaving Florida at approximately 9 p.m. EDT on March 19, for races on the $27 million Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) program March 30. Once they arrive, they will join multiple grade I winners Dullahan and Little Mike, who have been training at […]
A little more than 24 hours after turning in his final American breeze ahead of the G1 Dubai World Cup Mar. 30, Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz})departed his stall at Palm Meadows Training Center and was scheduled to arrive in Dubai Wednesday, five years to the day that he was foaled. The striking chestnut worked five-eighths […]
Bourbon Bay makes his 7-year-old debut March 16 in a race he has won twice before, the San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) on the grass at Santa Anita Park. A fixture in the Southern California turf division at longer distances since 2010, Bourbon Bay won the 1 1/2-mile San Luis Rey with a big stretch run last year […]
Bourbon Bay makes his 7-year-old debut March 16 in a race he has won twice before, the San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) on the grass at Santa Anita Park. A fixture in the Southern California turf division at longer distances since 2010, Bourbon Bay won the 1 1/2-mile San Luis Rey with a big stretch run last year […]
Trainer Graham Motion confirmed March 13 that Joel Rosario will have the return mount aboard Animal Kingdom in the $10 million Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) on March 30. Motion had been critical of Rosario’s first ride aboard Team Valor International’s winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) in the $300,000 Gulfstream Park […]
