Thankful is SW14 for American Pharoah winning the Ladies Hcp (9f) at Aqueduct.
Racing in second place to the home turn, Thankful drew alongside longtime leader Miss Mariss (He’s Had Enough) with a furlong to go and eased clear for a three-quarter length victory. Ujjayl (Smarty Jone) was a neck away in third. (pic: NYRA)
Thankful sold for $625,000 as a Fasig-Tipton August yearling and is now the winner of three of her six races, placing in another two including third in the Gr3 Comely Stakes at Aqueduct last time out.
She is a half-sister to Schuylerville Stakes winner Brazen Persuasion (Indian Charlie) and to US Listed winner Behold De Buy (E Dubai).
The granddam Godmother (Show Em Slew) won the Gr3 Safely Kept Stakes.
Thankful is 4×3 Storm Cat and American Pharoah has Gr2 winner Sweet Melania out of a mare by Discreet Cat (Forestry) as well as French Listed winner Ocean Atlantique out of a Giant’s Causeway (Storm Cat) mare.
The Gr2 Park Hill Stakes winner Pista has Storm Cat as her maternal grandsire and the Japanese stakes winner Danon Pharoah has Sir Cat (Storm Cat) as his maternal grandsire.
American Pharoah is advertised at $100,000 at Coolmore Stud in Kentucky in 2021.