Emmanuel
Bay Colt / February 19th, 2019 in KY / by More Than Ready out of Hard Cloth
$240,300
2022 earnings
102
speed figure
40%
2022 wins
racing Record
2022 Stats
Career Stats
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2
Firsts
3
0
Seconds
0
1
Thirds
1
2
Unplaced
2
5
Starts
6
$240,300
Earnings
$272,100
$48,060
Earnings / Start
$45,350
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Bio
A son of leading sire More Than Ready, Emmanuel sold for $350,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2020. He gave indications that he was more than worth his price tag with impressive victories in his first two races. He soundly defeated a maiden special weight field at Gulfstream Park by 6 3/4 lengths on Dec. 30, 2021, and followed up that race with an impressive 4 1/2-length win against allowance optional claiming company at Tampa Bay Downs on Jan. 30, 2022.
A son of leading sire More Than Ready, Emmanuel sold for $350,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2020. He gave indications that he was more than worth his price tag with impressive victories in his first two races. He soundly defeated a maiden special weight field at Gulfstream Park by 6 3/4 lengths on Dec. 30, 2021, and followed up that race with an impressive 4 1/2-length win against allowance optional claiming company at Tampa Bay Downs on Jan. 30, 2022.
Needing a big race to advance to the 2022 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, Emmanuel next shipped to Lexington, Ky., for the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass Stakes. April 9 at Keeneland. He set the pace in the 1 1/8-mile race through a quarter-mile in :24.04 and a half-mile in :48.39 and led through the final turn before being overtaken by eventual runner-up Smile Happy and Blue Grass victor Zandon. The More Than Ready coly earned 20 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby in that race.
Emmanuel elected not to press on to the Derby, and switched to grass for his next start, the Grade 2 Pennine Ridge Stakes at Belmont Park on June 4. He took to the new surface easily, cruising to an impressive gate-to-wire win.
