Spring Quality

Spring Quality opened his career with a win in October 2014 but subsequently was sidelined. He returned in March 2016 and improved to 2-for-2 with an allowance victory at Tampa Bay Downs but did not race again until 2017.

After losing his first two starts in 2017, Spring Quality won an allowance race at Pimlico on the Preakness Stakes undercard before making his stakes debut in the Robellino Stakes at Penn National, where he prevailed by a neck. AFter a runner-up finish in a stakes race at Parx Racing, Spring Quality made his graded stakes debut in the Grade 2 Knickerbocker Stakes on Oct. 9 at Belmont Park and ran fourth. He then earned a breakthrough victory in the Grade 3 Red Smith Handicap on Nov. 11 at Aqueduct when he seized command in the stretch and edged away to win by a half-length under Edgar Prado.

Given the winter off, Spring Quality returned with a runner-up finish in the Fort Marcy Stakes at Belmont Park. He returned to the same course a month later and uneashed a strong late run to win the Grade 1, $1 million Woodford Reserve Manhattan Stakes at odds of 18-1.

Spring Quality is a half-brother (same dam [mother], different sire [father]) to multiple graded stakes winner Holiday Star.