By Andrew Caulfield
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Gleneagles
© Racing Post photo
QIPCO 2000 GUINEAS S.-G1, £498,750, NMT, 5-2, 3yo, c/f, 8fT, 1:37.55, gd/fm.
1--GLENEAGLES (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: You’resothrilling (GSW-Eng & Ire, $224,243), by Storm Cat
2nd Dam: Mariah’s Storm, by Rahy
3rd Dam: Immense, by Roberto
O-Michael Tabor, Susan Magnier & Derrick Smith;
B-You’resothrilling Syndicate (Ire). T-Aidan O’Brien;
J-Ryan Moore. £282,841. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Ire
& G1SP-Fr, 7-5-0-1, £554,612. *Full to Marvellous
(Ire), G1SWIre, $262,720. Werk Nick Rating: B+.
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In a tomayto-tomahto situation, the word dynasty is pronounced differently on each side of the Atlantic. But however you pronounce it, a pair of dynasties made their presence felt in the first of the year’s male Classics in the U.S. and Britain.
In the GI Kentucky Derby, victory again went to the Fappiano die-nasti, or, to be more precise, to the Unbridled branch. As I pointed out in my notes on American Pharoah on Mar. 17, his sire Pioneerof The Nile finished second in the Kentucky Derby (to Mine That Bird in 2009), and so did his sire Empire Maker (when the clear favorite in 2003). His great-grandsire Unbridled had fared better, accounting for Summer Squall in 1990.
Unbridled’s influence on the Kentucky Derby also extends to the 1990 winner Grindstone, who became the grandsire of Mine That Bird, and the Fappiano branch also gave us Real Quiet, the Derby winner of 1998. American Pharoah is therefore the fifth member of the Fappiano male line to have triumphed in the first leg of the Triple Crown since 1990. Add in two winners of the GI Preakness S. and four of the GI Belmont S. and the Fappiano dynasty has strong claims to being the most powerful force in the Triple Crown events in recent decades.
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