Nobals

Nobals won his maiden race as a 2-year-old during the 2021 Arlington meet and won his first stakes race late in the same meet when he won the $75,000 Arlington Washington Futurity going seven furlongs on a synthetic surface on Aug. 28, 2021. He finished his juvenile campaign in stakes races on turf and synthetic at Kentucky Downs, Presque Isle Downs, and Del Mar, where he recorded a second and a pair of fifth-place finishes.

Nobals made his 3-year-old debut at Turfway Park on Jan. 8, 2022, and was victorious in the $94,000 Turfway Preview Stakes going 6 1/2 furlongs on a synthetic surface. That race began a four-race winning streak for Nobals during the first half of 2022 where he won the $184,000 Animal Kingdom Stakes at six furlongs on synthetic at Turfway, the $128,000 Woodstock Stakes at Woodbine going six furlongs on synthetic, and then scored his first career turf win in a Churchill Downs 5 1/2-furlong allowance turf sprint on June 8.

The next time Nobals reached the winner's circle was in the third start of his 4-year-old season in the Grade 2 $500,000 Twinspires Turf Sprint on May 6, 2023, at Churchill Downs. Sent off as the 38-1 longest shot on the board in a field of 11, Nobals went right to the front and went wire to wire in 1:02.45 for the 5 1/2 furlongs.

Nobals won two more turf sprint stakes races in the second half of 2023 on his way to a start in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. He won a $100,000 stakes at five furlongs at Horseshoe Indiana on July 7 and then he won the $150,000 Da Hoss Stakes at 5 1/2 furlongs at Colonial Downs on Sept. 9.

Nobals made his next start in the Grade 1 $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 4 at Santa Anita and was mostly overlooked on the tote board at 12-1 odds in a 12-horse field. Expected to contest the pace in the Turf Sprint, Nobals instead stalked the pace in a change of tactics that paid off when he rallied up the rail in deep stretch to win. He beat runner-up Big Invasion by a long neck on the wire in a time of :55.15 for the five furlongs.

Nobals returned for his 5-year-old season in 2024, and it took him four races to finally get back to the winner's circle after losses in races like the Grade 2 Ainsworth Turf Sprint Stakes at Kentucky Downs (fourth) and in the Grade 2 Woodford Stakes presented by FanDuel at Keeneland (fifth). Nobals switched to a synthetic surface and won the Grade 2 $175,000 bet465 Kennedy Road Stakes going six furlongs on the all-weather main track at Woodbine on Nov. 16. He outbattled favorite Patches O’Houlihan to win by three-quarters of a length in a time of 1:08.59.

Nobals was back at Woodbine in the latter stages of 2025 as a 6-year-old and again had success north of the border. He finished second in the Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes on Oct. 4 and then came back and defended his title from 2024 with a win in the Grade 2 $175,000 bet365 Kennedy Road Stakes on Nov. 15.

Nobals is trained by Larry Rivelli for Patricia's Hope Stables. He was bred in Kentucky by the Sire Noble Mission out of the mare Pearly Blue by Empire Maker.