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Johar (foaled 1999 in Kentucky, died November 10, 2014) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2003 Breeders' Cup Turf in a dead-heat with High Chaparral.
Bred and raced by Prince Ahmed bin Salman's The Thoroughbred Corp., his sire Gone West, a son of the outstanding sire Mr. Prospector, was a millionaire multiple stakes winner and a successful sire and a sire of sires who sold for US$6.1 million. His dam was Windsharp, a multiple Grade 1 winner in the United States and the 1996 Canadian Champion Older Female Horse and Canadian Champion Female Turf Horse 2. Damsire, Lear Fan, raced in England and France and notably won the Grade 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois.
Trained by Richard Mandella, Johar was unraced at two but at age three made eleven starts from a base in California. He won four times including the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby and Grade 2 Oak Tree Derby. At four in 2003, the colt won the Grade 2 San Marcos Handicap in January at Santa Anita Park but a shoulder fracture kept him out of racing until late summer. In his August 22 comeback he finished third to winner Irish Warrior in the Harry F. Brubaker Handicap at Del Mar Racetrack. Johar then ran second to Storming Home in the September 28 Clement L. Hirsch Memorial Turf Championship 3 before winning the most important race of his career, the October 25 Breeders' Cup Turf, held that year at Santa Anita Park. Johar, last until the field moved through the backstretch, made a powerful late run down the middle of the homestretch to finish first in a dead-heat with High Chaparral and barely a nose ahead of third place finisher Falbrav. As co-winner of the first dead-heat in Breeders' Cup history, Johar defeated other top runners such as The Tin Man (4th), and the betting favorite, Storming Home (7th).
Johar was retired to stud for the 2005 season. As of September 25, 2009 he had sired twenty-three race winners.
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Another pilot, Samir Hamshari, came into the room, saw Johar, and sat down beside him.
Samir was a year younger than Johar and had introduced him to a new form of air-to-air tactics.
When Johar saw the flash of two aircraft exploding in front of him he keyed his mike.
The Israeli wingman was pitching back into the fight when Johar stuffed a missile up his exhaust nozzle.
For good measure, Johar launched a second Archer, but there was no target for it to home on.
The audio on the tape recaptured the radio transmissions between Johar and Samir and had been synchronized with the action.
He rolled the handle of the letter opener between his fingers, studying the blade, finding it more interesting than Johar and Samir.
There was nothing in it for Johar and Samir and they were to continue to sit standby alert in the squadron.
Since Johar had called for it, he would make a level turn to the right as low to the ground as possible.
The F-15 headed directly for Johar and accelerated for one last snap shot with his gun-something to keep Johar occupied while he ran for safety.
Now Johar honked back even farther on the stick and the Flanker mushroomed above a thousand feet, its nose high in the air.
Samir broke hard right when he saw the missiles and Johar pulled down and to the leftSamir wrenched his fighter back to the left so he could keep a visual contact on the missiles.
Matt climbed into the sun that was just above the eastern horizon and watched the missile, then he broke hard for the ground and back into Johar as Furry sent more flares out the back.
Now they were climbing almost straight UP, Still canopy to canopy, when Johar pulled hard into Matt.
Johar gave an inward shudder as he thought what Mana would do if he knew the truth.