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After two years off the calendar because of the pandemic, the Korea Cup and Korea Sprint finally return for their respective fifth editions at Seoul Racecourse on Saturday, Sept. 3 (US Date/Time).
Defending champion Cafe Pharoah and multiple graded-stakes winner Red le Zele (JPN) headline 16 runners entered for Sunday’s US$2.25 million February Stakes (Group 1) at Tokyo Racecourse, with the winner receiving the first automatic berth into this year’s US$6 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) through the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series.
11:20AM, FEB 21 2021 American Pharoah notched his third top-flight winner, and first on dirt, when his son Cafe Pharoah claimed the Grade 1 February Stakes at Tokyo on Sunday. The US-bred four-year-old was adding to his two Grade 3 victories, having won the Unicorn Stakes and the Sirius Stakes last year. Jockey Christophe Lemaire tracked the leaders aboard the powerfully-built bay, and having hit the front entering the final furlong, Cafe Pharoah ran on strongly to deny the fast-finishing Air Spinel, a son of King Kamehameha, by three-quarters of a length. "His condition was super and...
Sponsored by: Cafe Pharoah won Japan's February Stakes, the first Win and You're In Breeders' Cup Challenge Series race of 2021 for the Classic In 2015, American Pharoah took the racing world by storm when he captured the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). On Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse in Japan, Koichi Nishikawa's Cafe Pharoah, a Kentucky-bred son of American Pharoah, earned the first automatic berth into this year's $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic through the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series with a three-quarter length victory over Air Spinel (JPN) in the one-mile...
Sponsored by: Cafe Pharoah wins the Unicorn Stakes in 2020 (Japan Racing Association Photo) TokyoHorseRacing Co. Ltd.'s Red le Zele (JPN) and Koichi Nishikawa's Cafe Pharoah (JPN) lead the 16-horse field for Sunday's 38th running of the 1-mile, $1.84 million February Stakes (G1) on dirt at Tokyo Racecourse. The February Stakes winner will earn the first automatic qualifying berth for this year's $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) to be awarded through the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series. The Breeders' Cup Challenge is an international series of stakes races whose winners ...