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Chris Waller counts himself lucky to have seen US Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh in the flesh and he was thrilled to provide the stallion with his first Australian victory.
Trained by legendary horseman Bob Baffert, American Pharaoh was a star on the track and has made an immediate impact with his northern hemisphere progeny.
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The Waller-trained Head Of State became the sire’s first southern-hemisphere winner at Warwick Farm on Wednesday from just a handful of horses to race.
Head Of State fetched $850,000 as a yearling and is owed by a partnership which includes Coolmore, who orchestrated the original meeting between Waller and Baffert.
“I was lucky enough to meet the horse and the trainer, Bob Baffert, in America and it was at Coolmore,” Waller said.
“It was one of my proudest moments to get over there for the Kentucky Derby and to be training one by him, it’s good.”
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Head Of State is not among nominations for the Golden Slipper as Waller believes the longer distances of the Sires’ Produce and Champagne Stakes will be more to his liking.
“You can see he is still a little bit green. He just wobbled around the bend a little bit,” Waller said.
“He’s probably not a natural on-pace horse but he did everything right to let down strongly and he will take a lot of improvement from it.
“I would think he is a Sires’, Champagne type of horse but if not, he will be a Guineas horse in the spring.”
Jockey James McDonald was equally enthusiastic, describing Head Of State as a “beauty”.
“It’s really nice to get a good, dominant win on the board because I reckon he’s a pretty good horse who will measure up in good races come 1400, a mile,” McDonald said.
“He’s just got a lovely action and a good mindset.”
McDonald went on to land a treble at the midweek meeting, adding wins aboard the Waller-trained Seleque and Newsreader for John O’Shea.
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — For the first time in the history of horse racing’s Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes will be the final leg of the series across several months.
The major shakeup comes after the New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced Tuesday that the 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes would take place on June 20th with no fans in attendance.
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READ MORE: Maryland Lifts COVID Capacity Limits On Restaurant Dining, Retail And Other Businesses, Masks Still RequiredWith the announcement, the schedule for this year’s Triple Crown is now set after previously being up in the air due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic:
- Belmont Stakes: June 20th
- Kentucky Derby: September 5th
- Preakness Stakes: October 3rd
The Belmont Stakes is the oldest of the races, having first been run in 1867 at Jerome Park and has traditionally been the last and most grueling of the three races due to its distance and slot in the schedule. That distance has changed this year as well, moving from 1 1/2 miles to 1 1/8 miles the shortest distance for the race since 1894.
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READ MORE: COVID Latest: Maryland Lifts Quarantine Restrictions On Out-Of-State Travel, Testing Strongly EncouragedWhile the Preakness and Kentucky Derby were in different orders over the early years of the establishment of the races, the order of Derby, Preakness, Belmont has been the same every year since 1931.
Also of note is the length of time between races with 11 weeks in between the Belmont and Derby and another four weeks between the Derby and Preakness.
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