Zulu Kingdom (IRE)

Zulu Kingdom, an Irish-bred Ten Sovereigns colt, won his debut June 4, 2024, taking a seven-furlong turf maiden race at Saint-Cloud racecourse in France by a dominant 3 ½ lengths.

The colt was then purchased privately by a U.S.-based partnership and transferred to trainer Chad Brown, who entered him in the Grade 3 With Anticipation Stakes Aug. 29 at Saratoga.

With jockey Flavien Prat in the irons, Zulu Kingdom saved ground for most of the 1 1/16-mile race on Saratoga’s inner turf course and rallied late to win by a neck.

In his next start, Zulu Kingdom competed for a “Win and You’re In” berth to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf against seven fellow 2-year-olds when contesting the Grade 2 Pilgrim Stakes Sept. 28 at Belmont at the Big A. Jockey Joel Rosario picked up the assignment and kept Zulu Kingdom in a stalking position through the backstretch and far turn of the 1 1/16-mile race, and the colt assumed command in mid-stretch and then held off a rallying Noble Confessor to prevail by a neck over a turf course rated as yielding.

Zulu Kingdom returned for the start of his 3-year-old season with a victory in the $100,000 Columbia Stakes going one mile on the turf at Tampa Bay Downs on March 8, 2025. He used that race as a springboard for a start in his next race in the Grade 1 $1 million American Turf Stakes presented by Ford going 1 1/16 miles on the turf where Zulu Kingdom got his first career Grade 1 victory. Sent off as the 2.17-1 favorite atop a 14-horse field in the American Turf, Zulu Kingdom stalked the pace up close, swung outside the leader in mid-stretch, and powered ahead to win by 1 1/4 lengths on a turf course rated "good" on a rainy Kentucky Derby undercard at Churchill Downs on May 3.

Zulu Kingdom is out of the unraced Smart Strike mare Zindziswa.