Essential Quality
Gray or Roan Colt / April 8th, 2018 in KY / by Tapit out of Delightful Quality
$1,335,144
2020 earnings
103
speed figure
100%
2020 wins
racing Record
2020 Stats
Career Stats
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3
Firsts
3
0
Seconds
0
0
Thirds
0
0
Unplaced
0
3
Starts
3
$1,335,144
Earnings
$1,335,144
$445,048
Earnings / Start
$445,048
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Bio
Essential Quality, a Godolphin homebred Tapit colt, won his career debut in impressive fashion on the rescheduled Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve undercard, scoring by a four lengths in a six-furlong race.
Essential Quality, a Godolphin homebred Tapit colt, won his career debut in impressive fashion on the rescheduled Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve undercard, scoring by a four lengths in a six-furlong race.
Trainer Brad Cox elevated him to stakes company for his next outing in the Oct. 3 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland, a Challenge Series “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare. Jockey Luis Saez put Essential Quality in second through the backstretch pressing the pace, and the colt took over at will heading into the far turn and was not challenged thereafter in a dominant 3 ¼-length win.
In the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Saez was forced to rate Essential Quality off the pace in eighth early behind a fast opening half-mile in :45.31. Essential Quality accelerated on cue and rolled past seven horses to prevail by three-quarters of a length and state his case as a leading contender for the Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old male.
Essential Quality is out of the graded stakes-placed winning Elusive Quality mare Delightful Quality, a half-sister to champion filly Folklore.
