Champion colt One Stripe (One World), exported for a racing career abroad, has arrived at his new trainer Graham Motion’s Herringswell Stables at the Fair Hill Training Centre in Elkton, Maryland.
One Stripe, who will be racing for a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam, has reportedly settled in well. Formerly trained by Vaughan Marshall, he left South Africa for the United States in March, and Motion reported: “He has been in France for two months where he was able to exercise. Previous to that he did a month of quarantine in South Africa, under the new guidelines.”
Motion added: “My hope would be to find a race in September that will set him up for the Breeders’ Cup (Del Mar, San Diego), much like we did with Isivunguvungu.”
One Stripe became the first three-year-old in over half a century to win both the prestigious weight-for-age King’s Plate and the Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas in his sophomore year since the David Payne-trained champion In Full Flight completed the double almost a lifetime ago in 1972.
Hollywood Racing’s Anthony Delpech commented earlier this year, after the conclusion of the sale: “We wish to showcase the quality and class of SA bloodstock to the world and the Breeders’ Cup remains a goal for the team for 2025. Horseracing is about dreams and reaching for the stars and who knows where One Stripe could land up as a stallion prospect in the years ahead? Hollywood Racing invite all racing fans and One Stripe supporters to join us on this incredible journey.”
One Stripe also holds an invitation for the LONGINES Hong Kong International races in December this year at Sha Tin.
Video below: One Stripe arrives in Maryland.
