Animal Kingdom (horse)
| Animal Kingdom | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Leroidesanimaux |
| Grandsire | Candy Stripes |
| Dam | Dalicia |
| Damsire | Acatenango |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 2008 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Denali Stud |
| Owner | Team Valor, Arrowfield Stud & Darley Stud |
| Trainer | H. Graham Motion (USA) |
| Record | 12: 5-5-0 |
| Earnings | $8,399,884 |
| Major wins | |
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Spiral Stakes (2011) Kentucky Derby (2011) |
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| Awards | |
| American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse (2011) | |
Spiral Stakes (2011)
Dubai World Cup (2013)
Animal Kingdom (foaled in Kentucky on March 20, 2008) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 137th Kentucky Derby and the 2013 Dubai World Cup. His Derby win took place on May 7, 2011, before a record crowd of 164,858. After the Derby, Animal Kingdom finished second in the Preakness Stakes and sixth in the Belmont Stakes before his career was disrupted by injury. He returned to finish second in the 2012 Breeders' Cup Mile before winning the Dubai World Cup as a five-year-old in 2013. Animal Kingdom is the first Kentucky Derby winner to win a Grade 1 race at the age of five. He has won Grade 1 races on both dirt and synthetic surfaces.
Bred by Team Valor racing stable and born at Denali Stud in Paris, Kentucky, his sire Leroidesanimaux (Le roi des animaux, French, translates as "King of the animals.") was bred in Brazil and of European bloodlines that traditionally ran on turf. His dam Dalicia was German-bred and never raced on dirt.
The colt was entered into the September 2009 Keeneland Sales as a yearling. The Team Valor partnership that bred Animal Kingdom sold him for $100,000 to a new Team Valor partnership who planned to race him. The chief executive of the partnership is Barry Irwin. The original breeding partnership was dissolved.
At two, Animal Kingdom's training was taken over by Arlington Park trainer Wayne Catalano. In his debut race on September 18, 2010, he ran in an off-the-turf 8.5 furlongs race, coming from the back of the pack to finish second to the favorite, Willcox Inn. Animal Kingdom broke his maiden in his second race, a mile and an eighth Maiden Special Weight race at Keeneland Race Course, this time over Polytrack.
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