Trikari

Trikari won his maiden race in his second career outing as a 2-year-old on Dec. 28, 2023, in a 1 1/16-mile race on a synthetic track at Gulfstream Park. His second career win then came on another all-weather track by a neck in the $249,000 Rushaway Stakes at Turfway Park going 1 1/16 miles on March 23, 2024.

Trikari then proved to be just as good or better when switched to the turf when he was victorious on the Kentucky Derby undercard in the Grade 2 $600,000 American Turf Stakes on May 4 at Churchill Downs. Sent off as a 47-1 bomb in a 14-horse field in the American Turf, Trikari stalked the pace close-up throughout and then outran the longest odds on the board to get up and win by 1 1/2 lengths.

Trikari is trained by Graham Motion. He was bred in Kentucky by the sire Oscar Performance out of the mare Dynamic Holiday by Harlan's Holiday.