Essential Quality

Essential Quality
SireTapit
GrandsirePulpit
DamDelightful Quality
DamsireElusive Quality
SexStallion
Foaled2018[1]
CountryUnited States
ColorGray
BreederGodolphin Stables
OwnerGodolphin Stables
TrainerBrad H. Cox
Record10: 8-0-2
Earnings$4,215,144[2]
Major wins
Breeders' Futurity Stakes (2020)
Southwest Stakes (2021)
Blue Grass Stakes (2021)
Jim Dandy Stakes (2021)
Travers Stakes (2021)

Triple Crown wins:
Belmont Stakes (2021)

Breeders' Cup wins:
Breeders' Cup Juvenile (2020)

Awards
American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse (2020)
American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse (2021)
Last updated on 10 February 2022

Essential Quality (foaled April 9, 2018) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2021 Belmont Stakes, the 2021 Travers Stakes, and the 2020 Breeders' Cup Juvenile. He was named the 2020 Champion Two-Year-Old and the 2021 Champion Three-Year-Old.

He won eight of his ten races, finishing in the top three in every race, with his only defeats being a third in the Kentucky Derby after a troubled trip while finishing a length behind the winner and a third in the Breeders' Cup Classic.

  1. ^ "Pedigree of Essential Quality". Equineline. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Essential Quality profile". Equibase. Retrieved 5 June 2021.

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