Pedigree fun facts

Triple Crown champion Justify has already sired an Epsom Derby (G1) winner, and now the hot international stallion has a Kentucky Derby (G1) contender in American Promise.

As a son of Hall of Famer Curlin and a Grade 1-caliber Uncle Mo mare, who is herself out of a daughter of Bernardini, Journalism has a classic-oriented pedigree.

From the sire line of 1990 Kentucky Derby (G1) champion Unbridled, Burnham Square also has Derby-winning sires on his mother’s side.

Speed King is an aptly-named colt from the first crop of outstanding sprinter Volatile.

Disco Time hopes to succeed on the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail that his sire and maternal grandfather unfortunately never had the opportunity to pursue.

Fans of Seattle Slew have at least six reasons to embrace Coal Battle – that’s how many times the 1977 Triple Crown legend appears in his pedigree!

Entering the year atop the domestic leaderboard, Citizen Bull is just one of a veritable phalanx of hopefuls by the great patriarch Into Mischief.

If Seize the Grey prevails, Arrogate would join the club of sires with back-to-back Belmont winners.

Half of the eight runners in Saturday’s Preakness (G1), including Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan, are by horses who themselves competed in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown.

Will Justify, a newly-minted Hall of Famer, become only the fourth Triple Crown champion to sire a Derby winner?