The Drakenstein Stud bred champion One Stripe looked unlucky not to win his first US G1 race on Friday.
One Stripe ran second in the G1 Maker’s Mark Mile at Keeneland, a race won by the front running Zulu Kingdom. A son of Ten Sovereigns, Zulu Kingdom made it  seven wins from nine starts when he got away to a three-length lead in mid-stretch and was able to hold off One Stripe.
The Graham Motion trained One Stripe racing midpack and saving ground every inch of the way, came up the fence and edged Rhetorical for second. Thirteenth last fall in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, the Graham Motion-trained South African import nearly won the Pegasus World Cup Turf in his most recent start and appears to have established himself as a major factor in the division.

With his runner up effort, One Stripe took his US earnings to $546 038, with the Equus Champion having won or been placed in three of his five starts in the US.

One Stripe’s G1 Sun Met winning sire One World also gained a handsome update to his stellar female line with his close relative Expensive Queen dead-heating for first place in Saturday’s G1 Jenny Wiley Stakes at Keeneland.
A daughter of Lope De Vega, five-year-old Expensive Queen scored her biggest win to date with her effort on Saturday. Luis Saez rode Expensive Queen for owner Farfellow Farms and trainer Brendan Walsh

The mare, whose French classic winning third dam Caerlina is a full-sister to One World’s granddam Leonila, stormed home to get up and force a dead-heat with Segesta in Saturday’s $581,713  contest.

The Leading First and Second Season Sire of his year, Equus Champion One World has ten lots on offer at the upcoming National Yearling Sale.