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This year Japan's best hope to end its Derby drought is Luxor Cafe, a Kentucky-bred son of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah with a devastating turn of foot. Below, we'll dig further into ...
Trained by Noriyuki Hori, Luxor Café worked five furlongs in 1:02.40 with jockey Joao Moreira aboard. Fractions on the work were :13.40, :26, :37.80 and 1:02.40. “I was asked to canter a lap as ...
Joao Moreira, a 41-year-old jockey from Brazil, will be riding in the Kentucky Derby for the first time Luxor Cafe has raced exclusively in Japan and will enter the Kentucky Derby with a four-race ...
Publisher and Luxor Café are the first of American Pharoah's offspring to reach the Derby. In 2023, he had a daughter run in the Kentucky Oaks: Promiseher America, who finished 14th — dead last.
Cafe Pharoah, a full-brother to Luxor Café, is a two-time winner of the G1 February Stakes, contested at roughly one mile, and he finished third in the G1 Saudi Cup at 1 1/8 miles. Elsewhere in ...
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Olette-Pelletier is an Egyptologist and, by chance, his daily walk took him past the Luxor Obelisk, the 3,000-year-old monument that towers over Place de la Concorde in central Paris. One day ...
Since then, the Concord (or Luxor) Obelisk has been on display to residents and visitors alike, it has been studied and scrutinized, and probably captured in more selfies than is fair for a monument.
An Egyptologist in Paris has discovered secret messages on the capital's Luxor Obelisk. © Connie Ma from Chicago, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 https ...
Ongoing archaeological work at the Ramesseum Temple at Luxor has resulted in a wealth of new finds. Crews discovered storage areas—which once kept oil, honey, and wine—that paint a new picture ...
A Pharaoh's message uncovered: Seven hidden codes revealed on the Luxor Obelisk. (photo credit: Cocotier Tours. Via Shutterstock) During renovation work in 2021, Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier ...