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American Pharoah was named American Horse Of The Year

  PICTURE: Jessie Holmes/EquiSport Photos  

 By Sam Walker 9:09AM 18 JAN 2016 

WORLD CLASS: an analysis of the international scene according to Racing Post Ratings

IT WAS hard to imagine a situation where American Pharoah would not have been crowned American Horse of the Year on Saturday. Thankfully – riot averted – he was the unanimous choice.

The first US Triple Crown winner for 37 years, the first ever US Grand Slam winner and the RPR world champion finished his assault on the sports awards season with a total of five Eclipse awards.

Already shouldering the titles of Sports Achievement of the Year, Sports Figure of the Year and Sports Story of the Year from various US media groups, American Pharoah was named Horse of the Year and top three-year-old male on Saturday, while the team behind him picked up gongs for best owner, breeder and trainer.

It’s been a whirlwind 12 months for the team behind the best colt in the world and they have rightly collected every award going, but even after hanging up his racing plates American Pharoah’s legacy may be still in its infancy.

There are two stages to look forward to if the colt is to confirm his legacy. The first will come on the track from the horses who couldn’t get close to him and the second will be via his lucrative US$5 million per week second career in the breeding sheds.

We have been through this same process recently with dual world champion Frankel, who retired in 2012.

Frankel’s dominance on the track continued to play out long after his retirement, with horses like Cirrus Des Aigles, Farhh and St Nicholas Abbey going on to win multiple Group 1s over the next two seasons.

This step really legitimised the huge impression Frankel made on world racing, as horses who were many lengths behind him went on to prove worthy champions in their own right in his absence. Every time they raced and won they added to his legacy.

Form already being franked

American Pharoah’s Breeders’ Cup Classic form has already enjoyed a touch of the Frankel treatment, with Effinex and Tonalist going out and winning Grade 1 handicaps under top weight on their next starts.

This year the world champ will have plenty of smart horses running for him. Effinex, Keen Ice and Frosted finished between six-and-a-half and 13 lengths behind him in the Classic and all three are possibles for the Dubai World Cup in March.

Another flag bearer could be Dortmund, who suffered his only two defeats from ten career starts behind American Pharoah in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. He is set to start his campaign in next month’s San Antonio Stakes and should be another to add to the Pharoah legacy.

The second stage of legacy confirmation (at stud) is never a given. For every racing great that has managed to pass on his influence, there are plenty more who have flopped at stud.

Frankel’s first crop of two-year-olds will hit the track this year. If they are successful the sire will live forever through future champions – and if they aren’t we will always have those amazing memories. The same goes for American Pharoah, who thoroughly dominated the dirt scene in 2015.

Chrome entitled to improve

The best performance in the States so far this year came from the 2014 Eclipse Horse of the Year, California Chrome, who won the Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita with an RPR of 116.

It wasn’t a performance that suggested he’s about to dominate the stage in America, since the length-and-a-quarter runner-up Imperative (113) arrived on a 12-race losing run stretching back to April 2014.

That said, it was California Chrome’s first run back from injury since the Dubai World Cup last March and he is entitled to improve for it. He finished a very good second in Dubai, having raced four wide and chased a suicidal pace, eventually losing out to veteran Prince Bishop.

California Chrome came within two lengths of winning the US Triple Crown in 2014, but he had a year to forget in 2015 with two defeats followed by an injury which ruled him out for the rest of the season.

There’s still all to play for in 2016, where he will tackle a US racing scene from which plenty of the leading players like American Pharoah, Honor Code, Liam’s Map and Tonalist have retired, while Shared Belief has sadly passed on.

The chief competition among the older horses this year will probably come from the American Pharoah proxies like Effinex and Keen Ice. And with California Chrome also eye-balling a trip to Dubai, the world’s richest race could give us an early indication of which way the chips will fall.

The best performance in the world so far this year came from Hong Kong speedball Not Listenin’tome (121), who landed the Bauhinia Sprint Trophy at Sha Tin under a huge weight.

TOP OF THE CLASS: Not Listenin’tome 121 John Moore (HK) (Bauhinia Sprint Trophy, Sha Tin, 5f, January 1)

 

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