One Stripe booked his Breeders Cup spot by winning the L’Ormarins King’s Plate (Picture: Wayne Marks)
One Stripe remains the only Gr 1 winner of One World, who broke records as a freshman sire and who added another two stakes winners last season to make his career tally four stakes winners to date.
One Stripe, a Race Coast Sales Ready To Run Sale-topping R1,4 million purchase, was orginally trained by Vaughan Marshall and owned by Rikesh Sewgoolam, but was later purchased by Hollywood Racing (Betting Entertainment Technologies International) with Sewgoolam retaining a share and he is presently being trained by Graham Motion at Fairhill Training Centre in Northeast Maryland.
He is being prepared for tilt at the Gr 1 Breeders Cup Mile on turf, to be run on November 1 at Del Mar.
He breezed five furlongs in 1,03,4 at home on Sunday.
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One Stripe has met Equus Horse Of The Year Eight On Eighteen twice and beaten him both times.
He defeated the champion for the second time when winning the Gr 1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas and he went on to win the prestigious Gr 1 L’Ormariins King’s Plate, also over 1600m.
He became only the eleventh 3yo winner of the King’s PLate since its inception in 1861, and earned an automatic ‘win and you’re in’ ticket into the Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.
One Stripe has won six of nine starts and has had five Graded wins in all.
He was ousted for the Horse Of The Year award because Eight On Eighteen went on to win three Gr 1s over 2000m, including the wfa WSB Met, and Eight On Eighteen failed narrowly to become the first horse ever to win both the Met and the Hollywoodbets Durban July as a three-year-old.
After leaving South Africa One Stripe spent two months with Irishman Gavin Hernon, who is based in Chantilly, France. He was kept in light work in France.
One Stripe departed France on Wednesday 9 July, and after a few days in precautionary quarantine, arrived in Maryland on Saturday 12 July.
