LEXINGTON, Ky. — A feeling of hope rippled across bluegrass country, and everywhere else in the world of racing, when at 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 3 a mare named Kakadu gave birth to the very first foal by the Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.
Kakadu delivered the foal three weeks early at Brookdale Farm in Versailles, Ky., beating Untouched Talent, who was also in foal to American Pharoah, by 12 days. Thus began one of the most anticipated foaling seasons in decades as the initial offspring of American Pharoah, whose 2015 sweep was the sport’s first in 37 years, quickly multiplied in number.