Thursday's Insights: American Pharoah Firsters at Churchill, Belmont

American Pharoah | Sarah Andrew

1st-CD, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 5f, 12:45 p.m. ET

Wesley Ward saddles Hat Creek Racing's LADY DELAWARE (AMERICAN PHAROAH), a half-sister to GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hootenanny (Quality Road) and a $100,000 KEESEP purchase. The same owner and trainer send out the race's other filly in entrymate Winyah Bay (Summer Front).

John Oxley's Enforceable (Tapit&hid=28277">Tapit), trained by Mark Casse, is a full-brother to multiple graded stakes winner Mohaymen, as well as Saturday's California Derby winner Kingly, and he is a half to GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner New Year's Day (Street Cry {Ire}). TJCIS PPs

1st-BEL, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5f, 1:30 p.m. ET

Trainer Todd Pletcher saddles another firster by the Triple Crown winner in New York. SWEET MELANIA (American Pharoah) was a $600,000 KEESEP purchase by Robert and Lawana Low. She is a daughter of stakes winner and graded placed Sweet N Discreet (Discreet Cat).

Trainer Wesley Ward sends out Stonestreet homebred Cambria (Speightstown), a daughter of graded stakes winner and Grade I placed Teen Pauline (Tapit).

George Bolton's Aurelia Garland, from the first crop of Grade I winner Constitution, is a half-sister to 'TDN Rising Star' and $1.7-million OBS March graduate Diamondsandpearls (Congrats). The $185,000 FTSAUG purchase is also trained by Ward. TJCIS PPs

 

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