Essential Quality (USA)

Foal date
09/04/2018
Gender
Horse
Colour
Grey or Roan
Sire
Tapit
Dam
Delightful Quality
Trainer
Breeder
Godolphin
Official rating
 
Career earnings
$4,930,144.00
    Results
    Essential Quality (USA) Tapit (USA) Pulpit (USA) A.P. Indy (USA)
    1989
    1994 Preach (USA)
    1989
    2001 Tap Your Heels (USA) Unbridled (USA)
    1987
    1996 Ruby Slippers (USA)
    1982
    2018 Delightful Quality (USA) Elusive Quality (USA) Gone West (USA)
    1984
    1993 Touch Of Greatness (USA)
    1986
    2009 Contrive (USA) Storm Cat (USA)
    1983
    1998 Jeano (USA)
    1988
    Graded-class colt; dam US Graded stakes-placed 6f/7f winner, half-sister to BC Juvenile Fillies winner Folklore and 1m1f Listed winner Divided Attention; 4l winner of 6f special weight maiden at Churchill Downs in September 2020, which was followed by a Grade 1 success at Keeneland; then won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at the same venue over 1m 110yds in November; maintained impressive unbeaten record on 2021 return at Oaklawn Park in February, this time in a Grade 3 over 8.5f, before landing the Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes (1m1f) at Keeneland; lost his unbeaten record in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby (10f) after being bumped at the start but still finished a creditable fourth; regained the winning thread when landing the Belmont Stakes (1m4f) in June and followed up in Grade 2 at Saratoga (9f) in July, making it seven wins from eight starts; made in eight from nine in Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga (10f) next time; highly creditable effort behind Knicks Go in Breeders' Cup Classic next time, finishing third of eight in what was his final race.
    Essential Quality (USA) Tapit (USA) Pulpit (USA) A.P. Indy (USA)
    1989
    1994 Preach (USA)
    1989
    2001 Tap Your Heels (USA) Unbridled (USA)
    1987
    1996 Ruby Slippers (USA)
    1982
    2018 Delightful Quality (USA) Elusive Quality (USA) Gone West (USA)
    1984
    1993 Touch Of Greatness (USA)
    1986
    2009 Contrive (USA) Storm Cat (USA)
    1983
    1998 Jeano (USA)
    1988