Dunbar Road

Dunbar Road won her career debut impressively on March 3, 2019, tallying an 8 3/4 length victory at Gulfstream Park for trainer Chad Brown.

Brown moved her up to Grade 2 competition for her second start, coming in the Gulfstream Park Oaks  on March 30. After settling behind the leaders early in the race, Dunbar Road moved into contention leaving the turn for home and made a determined run but came up just short of Champagne Anyone to finish second. Dunbar Road earned 40 Kentucky Oaks points for her effort but she did not draw into the race off the also-eligible list. Instead, she made her next start in a May 30 allowance race at Belmont Park, where she won the 1 1/16-mile race by 5 1/2 lengths.

On June 29, she returned to graded stakes competition for the Grade 2, $250,000 Mother Goose Stakes and Dunbar Road proved much the best. She was reserved just off the pace by jockey Jose Ortiz and had plenty of stamina in reserve at the top of the stretch as she was angled outside and then surged to the front en route to a dominant win. Three and a half months after the Kentucky Oaks, Dunbar Road made her Grade 1 debut in the 1 1/4-mile, $600 Alabama Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets. Despite dropping well back early on a sloppy main track she did not appear to relish, Dunbar Road swept to the front in early stretch and pulled away to another decisive win.

Dunbar Road tacked older horses for the first time in her next start, the Grade 1 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes on Oct. 6 at Keeneland. She saved ground under Javier Castellano for most of the 1 1/8-mile race and rallied on the rail in the stretch, but was outfinished by winner Blue Prize and runner-up Elate and settled for third.

Returning from a layoff of more than six months for her 4-year-old debut, Dunbar Road closed from off the pace to win the 1 1/16-mile Shawnee Stakes May 23 at Churchill Downs. Making her next start in the Grade 2 Delaware Handicap July 11 at Delaware Park, Dunbar Roar outclassed the opposition in a clear and measure victory.

After a disappointing third-place finish as the heavy favorite in the Grade 2 Beldame Invitational, Dunbar Road bounced back to finish third again in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff Nov. 7 at Keeneland.

A daughter of top sire Quality Road, Dunbar Road was a $350,000 yearling purchase by owner Peter Brant's White Birch Farm.