Turned Aside is SW9 and the sixth Group/graded winner for American Pharoah after winning Friday’s Gr3 Quick Call Stakes (5.5f) on turf at Saratoga.
Clear around the home turn, the Linda Rice-trained Turned Aside always looked in control and went on to defeat Old Chestnut Speightstown) by 1-3/4 lengths with Fore Left (Twirling Candy) a neck away in third.
Turned Around is the first to race for Gr3 Miss Grillo Stakes at Belmont runner-up Sustained (War Front) and the best winner in the immediate generations of his female family.
His third dam Hurricane Amy (Storm Cat) is a winning half-sister to Gr3 Barbara Fritchie Handicap winner Amy Be Good (Northern Raja), the dam of Gr2 winner Good And Tough (Carson City).
Bred and part-owned by Paul Pompa, Turned Aside is inbred 4×4 to Storm Cat and American Pharoah has Gr2 winner Sweet Melania and Listed winners Ocean Atlantique and Danon Pharaoh bred this way.
American Pharoah’s sire Pioneerof The Nile got three-time Gr1 winner Classic Empire out of a mare by Cat Thief (Storm Cat).
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah also has three winners so far out of mares by War Front (Danzig) and in addition to Turned Aside has American Butterfly, also fourth in last year’s Gr1 Hopeful Stakes.