Essential Quality (USA)
1st - G1 Claiborne Breeders' Futurity - Keeneland, USA - 03 October 2020
1st - G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile - Keeneland, USA - 06 November 2020
1st - G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile - Keeneland, USA - 06 November 2020
1st - G1 Belmont Stakes - Belmont Park, USA - 05 June 2021
1st - G1 Belmont Stakes - Belmont Park, USA - 05 June 2021
1st - G1 Travers Stakes - Saratoga, USA - 28 August 2021
1st - G1 Travers Stakes - Saratoga, USA - 28 August 2021. Video credit: Fox Sports/NYRA
Foal date
09/04/2018Gender
ColtColour
Grey/RoanSire
Tapit (USA)
Dam
Delightful Quality (USA)
Trainer
Brad H Cox Breeder
Godolphin
Career earnings
$4,780,143.99Results
Pedigree
Comments
Starts10Wins8Placed1
| Essential Quality (USA) | Tapit (USA) | Pulpit (USA) | A.P. Indy (USA) |
| 1989 | |||
| 1994 | Preach (USA) | ||
| 1989 | |||
| 2001 | Tap Your Heels (USA) | Unbridled (USA) | |
| 1987 | |||
| 1996 | Ruby Slippers (USA) | ||
| 1982 | |||
| 2018 | Delightful Quality (USA) | Elusive Quality (USA) | Gone West (USA) |
| 1984 | |||
| 1993 | Touch Of Greatness (USA) | ||
| 1986 | |||
| 2009 | Contrive (USA) | Storm Cat (USA) | |
| 1983 | |||
| 1998 | Jeano (USA) | ||
| 1988 |
Graded-class colt; dam US Graded stakes-placed 6f/7f winner, half-sister to BC Juvenile Fillies winner Folklore and 1m1f Listed winner Divided Attention; 4l winner of 6f special weight maiden at Churchill Downs in September 2020, which was followed by a Grade 1 success at Keeneland; then won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at the same venue over 1m 110yds in November; maintained impressive unbeaten record on 2021 return at Oaklawn Park in February, this time in a Grade 3 over 8.5f, before landing the Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes (1m1f) at Keeneland; lost his unbeaten record in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby (10f) after being bumped at the start but still finished a creditable fourth; regained the winning thread when landing the Belmont Stakes (1m4f) in June and followed up in Grade 2 at Saratoga (9f) in July, making it seven wins from eight starts; made in eight from nine in Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga (10f) next time; highly creditable effort behind Knicks Go in Breeders' Cup Classic next time, finishing third of eight in what was his final race.
