Angel of Empire of Schuylkill County won two graded stakes and has earned more than $1 million on his way to Churchill Downs.
Pa.-bred Angel of Empire, seen here winning the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby with jockey Flavien Prat aboard on April 1 at Oaklawn Park. Angel of Empire is expected to be a top contender in the May 6 Kentucky Derby. Photo Credit: Coady Photography.The Kentucky Derby, the most celebrated horse race in America, is usually won by thoroughbreds who were born and raised in the Blue Grass state.
The colt has already beaten tremendous odds. In 2020, a total of 18,436 thoroughbred foals were born and registered in North America. Twenty colts out of that foal crop will run in the 2023 Kentucky Derby.Christian Black, along with his wife Christina, of Lititz, will see their Pa.-bred horse Angel of Empire race in the Kentucky Derby this year. Submitted photo.Blackstone Farm partner Christian Black is a Denmark native who moved to the U.S. in 2006 and lives in Lititz with his wife Christina.
Black purchased Angel of Empire’s mother, a mare named Armony’s Angel who was winless in an eight-race career for $67,000. She was already in foal to 2016 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner and two-year-old champion Classic Empire. Black, in the normal course of the breeding business, sold Angel of Empire at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale to Des Moines, Iowa-based Albaugh Family Stables for $70,000.
Angel of Empire won at first asking as a two-year-old at Horseshoe Indianapolis Racing & Casino last August and took two-of-three races in his juvenile season. “The older he’s getting the better he’s getting, bottom line.” Cox told the Oaklawn Park publicity staff following the Arkansas Derby. “I always thought he’d be better with more ground and obviously he’s two-for-two at a mile and an eighth. Hopefully wecan be one-for-one at a mile and a quarter .
The financial payoff will hopefully be in the future, when stallion owners come calling for a mating with Angel of Empire’s mother or one of Blackstone Farms’ other broodmares.
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