Triple Crown winners are the rarest gemstones in the world of thoroughbred. Only the thought of a potential triple crown winner reaches for the country's imagination. And completing this performance ensures a global sensation.
Maybe it shouldn't surprise that one of the newer triple crown winners –American Pharoah -Es becomes a sought-after stallion in the horse-hungry-Japan.
This demand could be on the verge of the son of American Pharoah, the son based in Japan, is based in Japan Luxor Cafe Follow in his father's Hoofprints and wins the Kentucky Derby (G1) in Churchill Downs on May 3.
“Mr. (Noriyuki) Hori also trained Cafe Pharoah, who is a full brother of Luxor Cafe, and he was a valued commitment, the winner of Group 1 in Japan,” said Kate Hunter, Churchill Downs Asia representative. “There are several other American pharoahs who went very well in Japan. If I have Japanese to buy horses with me at Keeland, look either for mares in foals in Pharoah or mares that you can bring to Pharoah in Fohlen and return to Japan.”
American Pharoah, the Triple Crown winner 2015, has 54 runners in Japan. This year, American Pharoah had 34 starters with 81 starts. They achieved 17 wins of 11 winners.
The top -active American Pharoah earners in Japan include Luxor Cafe (379,057 US dollars). June Blair ($ 389.874) and Stopover ($ 401,856). Cafe Pharaoh, who was last driven in 2023, won four group races, including two groups 1, and earned US dollars in Japan and the Middle East.
The father started his tunnel career in 2016 after a 9-1-0 record of 11 starts and a win of $ 8,650,300. This year he stands at Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky., For 45,000 US dollars.
It took a while for the Japanese auctions to reflect their affinity for the father. With the CV that American Pharoah, his first runner, who entered Japan, delivered a high price. The Colt, who is now known as Danon Pharoah, sold for 194,400,000 yen at the Japan Racing Horse Association July Select Yearlings Sale 2018. But then nobody sold in 2019, one in 2020 and 2021, before seven in 2022 and five in 2023.
Overall, American Pharoah is not the most successful father in Japan, and he is also not the best father from the USA who is after some measures. It occupies the 61st overall and 16th place under American stallions. But the biggest grim difference is that the stallions he has trails have hundreds of runners.
ROMG is the American father, whose descendants deserve the most in Japan this year. His 281 runners achieved 844 starts for the profit of $ 6,763,468 and an average profit index of 1.70. American Pharoah has 36 runners who have made 86 starts for 1,111,598 US dollars in wallet winners. However, his descendants have an aei of 2.13.
Based on AEI, American Pharoah took sixth place among all sires in Japan on April 29, not only with those from America.
With a growing appetite for American veror and their descendants in Japan, American Pharoah, who is the 14th father of the descendants in North America, is the 14th father, the apple of many owners and breeders.
One of American Pharoah's sons is now in Japan. Van Gogh, a European champion as a 2-year-old, has been with East Stud in Hokkaido since 2022.
“You have invested in the first Triple Crown winner for 37 years and had had a lot of success,” said Hunter.
“He is a very popular father there,” she added.
