Godolphin

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

09/04/2018

Gender

Colt

Colour

Grey/Roan

Sire

Tapit (USA)

Dam

Delightful Quality (USA)

Trainer

Brad H Cox

Breeder

Godolphin

Official rating

Career earnings

$4,780,143.99

Results

Pedigree

Comments

Starts10Wins8Placed2

Date	Result	Racecourse	Race details
06/11/2021	3rd	Del Mar (USA)	Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (Grade 1) (3yo+) (Main Track) (Dirt) 3yo+
28/08/2021	1st	Saratoga (USA)	Runhappy Travers Stakes (Grade 1) (3yo) (Main Track) (Dirt) 3yo
31/07/2021	1st	Saratoga (USA)	Jim Dandy Stakes (Grade 2) (3yo) (Main Track) (Dirt) 3yo
05/06/2021	1st	Belmont Park (USA)	Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets (Grade 1) (3yo) (Main Track) (Dirt) 3yo
01/05/2021	3rd	Churchill Downs (USA)	Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade 1) (3yo) (Main Track) (Dirt) 3yo
03/04/2021	1st	Keeneland (USA)	Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (Grade 2) (3yo) (Main Track) (Dirt) 3yo
27/02/2021	1st	Oaklawn Park (USA)	Southwest Stakes (Grade 3) (3yo) (Main Track) (Dirt) 3yo
06/11/2020	1st	Keeneland (USA)	TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (Grade 1) (2yo C & G) 2yo
03/10/2020	1st	Keeneland (USA)	Claiborne Breeders' Futurity (Grade 1) (2yo) (Main Track) (Dirt) 2yo
05/09/2020	1st	Churchill Downs (USA)	Maiden Special Weight (2yo) (Main Track) (Dirt) 2yo Mdn

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.