{"id":475266,"date":"2025-10-05T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:30:21","slug":"intrepido-on-his-way-to-the-breeders-cup-after-capturing-g1-american-pharoah-s-spendthrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475266\/","title":{"rendered":"Intrepido on his way to the Breeders&#8217; Cup after capturing G1 American Pharoah S. &#8211; Spendthrift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maximus-mischief-Intrepido-uts1-200-american-pharoah-benoit-1024x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19815\" style=\"width:534px;height:auto\"  \/>Intrepido and jockey Hector I. Berrios, left, outleg Deseert Gate, middle, and Plutarch, right, to win the Grade I, $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes \u2013  BENOIT PHOTO<\/p>\n<p>Maximus Mischief got his second Grade 1 winner of the year Saturday at Santa Anita Park when Intrepido closed with a rush to win the $300,000 American Pharoah S. (G1) by three-quarters of a length over heavily favored Desert Gate, with Plutarch a nose back in third.<\/p>\n<p>The top three finishers are all by Spendthrift stallions, with Desert Gate by Omaha Beach and Plutarch by Into Mischief.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Breeders\u2019 Cup Win and You\u2019re In series, the American Pharoah win assured Intrepido a spot in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile (G1) on Oct. 31 at Del Mar.<\/p>\n<p>After an even break, Intrepido settled in third around the first turn, with the Bob Baffert duo of Desert Gate battling through early fractions of :22.83 and :46.76. Entering the final turn, Intrepido was boxed in on all sides and didn\u2019t find racing room until after turning for home. Seemingly beat with less than 100 yards to run, Intrepido\u2019s final surge carried him to victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a bit of a complicated race at the start,\u201d said winning rider Hector Berrios. \u201cI tried to go to the front, but I saw [Desert Gate] break first, so I settled into second. From the first turn, I had to ease back a little. When I made my move to the outside (at the top of the stretch) he responded, although not very strongly at first. But when I asked him again, he responded and produced an impressive change of pace and flew down the final stretch. He\u2019s an amazing horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Intrepido, who is now 2-0-0 in three starts, has earned $232,800 for co-owners Dutch Girl Holdings LLC and Irving Ventures LLC. The bay 2-year-old was bred by Sierra Fria Farm, LLC and sold to his owners for $385,000 at the 2025 OBS Spring sale.<\/p>\n<p>Maximus Mischief, currently third to Omaha Beach and Mitole on the 2025 Third-Crop sire list, is also the sire of this year\u2019s Metropolitan H. (G1) winner Raging Torrent.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intrepido and jockey Hector I. Berrios, left, outleg Deseert Gate, middle, and Plutarch, right, to win the Grade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-475266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115320155784920703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}