Pathfork (foaled 12 March 2008) is an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the top-rated two-year-old in Ireland when he won all three of his starts including the Futurity Stakes and National Stakes. In the following spring he was regarded as one of the few colts in Europe capable of challenging Frankel but finished unplaced behind the English champion in the 2000 Guineas and did not race again that year. In 2012 he was campaigned in California but made no impact in two starts before his track career was ended by injury. He was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion in South Africa. Background Pathfork is a bay horse with a white star bred in Kentucky by Flaxman Holdings, a company owned by the Niarchos family. In September 2009, the yearling was consigned to the Keeneland Association sale and was bought for $230,000 by the Silverton Hill partnership. The colt was sent to Ireland and entered training with Jessica Harrington at Moone in County Kildare. His sire Distorted Humor was a successful racehorse, but just below top-class, scoring his biggest wins at Grade II level. As a breeding stallion he made an immediate impact by siring Funny Cide in his first crop of foals and went on to get numerous major winners including Drosselmeyer, Commentator, Flower Alley and Any Given Saturday. Pathfork's dam Visions of Clarity showed considerable ability as a racehorse, winning the Listed Prix Bagatelle over 1600 metres at Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse in 2003. She was a half-sister to Spinning World and, as a granddaughter of Aviance, closely related to many good horses including Chimes of Freedom, Aldebaran (American Champion Sprint Horse), Dietrich (King George Stakes), Saddex (Rheinland-Pokal) and Denon (Hollywood Derby). Racing career 2010: two-year-old season On his first racecourse appearance Pathfork started the 9/2 second favourite in a fourteen-runner maiden race over seven furlongs at the Curragh on 18 July. Ridden by Shane Foley he took the lead a furlong from the finish and drew away to win "comfortably" to win by four lengths from the Aidan O'Brien-trained favourite Robin Hood. Fran Berry took over the ride when the colt was stepped up to Group 3 class for the Futurity Stakes over the same course and distance on 21 August and started the 10/11 favourite ahead of the Jim Bolger-trained Glor Na Mara (runner-up in the Phoenix Stakes). He was always among the leaders,