Arcangelo (horse)

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Arcangelo
Sire Arrogate
Grandsire Unbridled's Song
DamModeling
Damsire Tapit
Sex Ridgling
Foaled (2020-05-11) May 11, 2020 (age 4)
Kentucky, U.S. [1]
CountryUnited States
Color Grey/Roan
Breeder Don Alberto Corporation (KY)
OwnerBlue Rose Farm
Trainer Jena Antonucci
Record6: 4-1-0
Earnings$1,754,900 [2]
Major wins
Peter Pan Stakes (2023)
Belmont Stakes (2023)
Travers Stakes (2023)
Awards
American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse (2023)
Last updated on 30 January 2024

Arcangelo is a retired Champion American three-year-old thoroughbred race horse who won the 2023 Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes. [3]

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Background

Arcangelo is a gray ridgling from the second crop of 2016 Travers Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic champion Arrogate, who was named that year's Longines World's Best Racehorse and had a short-lived stud career before passing in 2020. [4] [5] [6] On his Dam's side Arcangelo is a grandson of Tapit. [7] The horse's owner Jon Ebbert purchased the future champion for $35,000 from Gainesway's consignment at the 2021 September Yearling Sale at Keeneland. [8]

Arcangelo was bred and foaled in Kentucky by Don Alberto, an international breeding and racing operation whose proprietors are mother and son Chilean nationals Liliana Solari and Carlos Heller Solari. Arcangelo's Belmont Stakes win marked their first Grade I victory in the United States with a U.S.-bred horse. [9]

Racing career

During his 3-year-old season prior to the Belmont, Arcangelo was victorious in the 2023 Peter Pan Stakes which is also run at Belmont Park. He did not run in either of the previous legs of the Triple Crown.

The horse is trained by Jena Antonucci, the first woman to have a horse she trained win one of the three races in American horse racing's triple crown, namely the Belmont Stakes in 2023. [10] The horse was ridden in the 2023 Belmont Stakes by jockey Javier Castellano, who also previously rode him to a win in the Peter Pan Stakes. [11] Arcangelo started at odds of 7–1 in winning the Belmont Stakes. [4]

Arcangelo was shipped to the Saratoga Race Course where he spent the summer of 2023 preparing for the Travers Stakes which is run there. [12] In what would end up being his final race, Arcangelo won the Travers by one length in a time of 2:02.23 over a muddy track. [13]

Arcangelo was awarded the Eclipse Award as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse for 2023. [14]

Retirement and stud career

On October 16, 2023, as Arcangelo was training for the Breeders' Cup Classic, owner Jon Ebbert announced that the horse would enter stud at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky upon the conclusion of his racing career. [15]

On October 30, 2023, with the Breeders' Cup approaching, Antonucci told reporters that she had skipped two days of training for Arcangelo after the horse developed what was described as "a little warmth" in his left hind foot. She added she was still planning to enter Arcangelo into the Breeders' Cup Classic draw, which occurred that evening. [16] The following morning, Antonucci announced that Arcangelo would scratch from the Classic, saying that while the horse's foot showed some improvement, the team needed to fully diagnose the status of his health. She said that with the Breeders' Cup Classic so close, they had run out of time. Ebbert then said that Arcangelo would be retired from racing and head to Lane's End for stud duty, as was announced two weeks earlier. [17]

Statistics

DateDistanceRaceGradeTrackOddsFieldFinishWinning
Time		Winning
(Losing)
Margin		JockeyRef
2022 – Two-year-old season
Dec 17, 2022 Maiden Special Weight Gulfstream Park 2.00821:11.82 Jose Ortiz [18]
2023 – Three-year-old season
Jan 14, 2023 Maiden Special Weight Gulfstream Park 9.701141:39.18 Jose Ortiz [19]
Mar 18, 2023 Maiden Special Weight Gulfstream Park 2.00711:34.82 Javier Castellano [20]
May 13, 2023 Peter Pan Stakes Belmont Park 2.75811:49.71 Javier Castellano [21]
Jun 10, 2023 Belmont Stakes Belmont Park 7.90912:29.23 Javier Castellano [22]
Aug 26, 2023 Travers Stakes Saratoga 2.70712:02.23 Javier Castellano [13]

Notes:
An (*) asterisk after the odds means Arcangelo was the post-time favorite.

    Pedigree

    Pedigree of Arcangelo (USA), grey/roan ridgling, May 11, 2020 [1]
    Sire
    Arrogate
    (2013)    		 Unbridled's Song
    (1993)    		 Unbridled*
    (1987)    		 Fappiano (1977)
    Gana Facil (1981)
    Trolley Song
    (1983)    		 Caro (IRE) (1967)
    Lucky Spell (1971)
    Bubbler
    (2006)    		 Distorted Humor
    (1993)    		 Forty Niner (1985)
    Danzig's Beauty (1987)
    Grechelle
    (1995)    		 Deputy Minister* (CAN) (1979)
    Meadow Star (1988)
    Dam
    Modeling
    (2012)    		 Tapit
    (2001)    		 Pulpit
    (1994)    		 A.P. Indy (1989)
    Preach (1989)
    Tap Your Heels
    (1996)    		Unbridled* (1987)
    Ruby Slippers (1982)
    Teeming
    (2001)    		 Storm Cat
    (1983)    		 Storm Bird (CAN) (1978)
    Terlingua (1976)
    Better Than Honour
    (1996)    		Deputy Minister* (CAN) (1979)
    Blush With Pride (1979)(family 8-f) [23]

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