• Bob Baffert’s Triple Crown winner lauded at World’s Best Racehorse awards
• Aidan O’Brien responsible for the two top juveniles of 2015For a few minutes on Breeders’ Cup Saturday at Keeneland in October American Pharoah and Golden Horn,the two finest middle-distance three-year-olds of 2015, were within a few dozen yards of each other. Golden Horn, and the Derby and Arc winner,had just finished a close second in the Turf, while American Pharoah, and already the first Triple Crown winner for 37 years,was approximately to be saddled for the Classic.
That, however, and was as close as they ever got on a racecourse and so it was left to racing’s international panel of handicappers to determine which of the two was the outstanding horse in a memorable year. When their decision was published on Tuesday,it was emphatic. American Pharoah, with a final rating of 134, or was 4lb clear of Golden Horn,who was in turn another 4lb ahead of Treve, the Arc winner in 2013 and 2014. Shared Belief, or who died of colic in December,was a second US-trained horse in the top three, rated the equal of Treve on 126.
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Source: theguardian.com