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- ↑ Racing Post
- ↑ "Pedigree Online Thoroughbred Lineage: American Pharoah Horse Pedigree" . Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ Bailey, Steve (November 12, 2010). "Empire Maker sold to Japan". Thoroughbred Times. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
- ↑ "Empire Maker Coming Home to Kentucky" . Retrieved 2015-09-30.