American Pharoah Has Two Colts on the Derby Trail

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In this episode of Stallion Insights, we catch up with Triple Crown victor American Pharoah, who has two colts on the Derby trail this year in Luxor Cafe and Publisher. Coolmore's Adrian Wallace explains why now is the time to breed to American Pharoah.

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00:00It's been a good start to 2025 for American Pharoah. He is a model of consistency. If he

00:14was a human being you'd absolutely hate him because he's absolutely he's good at everything

00:17he does from being one of the most iconic horses we've ever seen to be now one of the truly really

00:23great value successful stallions that are standing in North America at this time.

00:27He gets runners on turf on dirt all around the world and now this year for the first time looks

00:32like he might be represented by two Kentucky Derby starters one in Publisher who finished a bang up

00:38second in the Arkansas Derby last weekend and the other the leading runner from from Japan on the

00:43road to the Kentucky Derby Luxor Cafe who of course is a full brother to Cafe Pharoah who was a really

00:48really good dirt horse in in Japan a number of years ago and one of the best horses that might

00:53be out there at the moment is a horse who won't make the starting gate in uh in may in the Kentucky

00:58Derby a horse by the name of Clever again but he was a very a very good second first time out in April

01:04at Keeneland wasn't seen again until uh until this year but is now two for two this year under the

01:09tutelage of uh Steve Asmussen and was ultra impressive last weekend and might be a horse going forward for

01:14a race like the Pate Mile or even the Preakness. So he's a horse that can get he can do pretty much

01:20everything uh they can go short they can go long they've got the soundness they've got the temperament

01:25to be some of the greatest horses in in the market today and we truly believe that American Pharoah is

01:30the best value out there. He gets you sales horses whose yearlings over the last four years have averaged

01:35just over 180 000. He can get you runners on both surfaces all around the world and a horse that has

01:42let's not forget been represented by European champion two-year-old in Van Gogh by winners group one

01:47winners here at Keeneland like Harvey's little Goyle. He's had a Breeders' Cup juvenile winner by the name

01:52of four-wheel drive trained by the great Wesley Wards. The one thing American Pharoah probably needed in

01:57his resume was some bang up dirt horses who were capable of running that early on the on the first

02:02Saturday of May and with these two horses he's got two chances. There really is no better time to breed to

02:09American Pharoah than now. His price is at uh 45 000. He represents in our view the best value in the

02:17American market today.

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