Essential Quality is the 26th Gr1 winner for Tapit winning the Breeders’ Futurity (8.5f) at Keeneland. Essential Quality led most of the way and was untroubled in the home straight to defeat Keepmeinmind (Laoban) by 3-1/4 lengths with Super Stock (Dialed In) taking third. The Godolphin-homebred is unbeaten in two starts for trainer Brad Cox.
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Love Tap is SW136 for Tapit winning the Gr3 Gloaming Stakes (1800m) at Rosehill. Love Tap enjoyed an uncontested lead to the home turn and then accelerated further clear and although getting tired had done enough to defeat Street Dancer (Pride Of Dubai) and Bucharest (Deep Impact). It is the fourth win from as many
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Multiple Grade 1 winner McKinzie will stand at Gainesway in Kentucky upon his eventual retirement from racing. “It is very exciting to stand a horse with McKinzie’s credentials at Gainesway,” farm director of bloodstock Alex Solis II said in a press release. “I don’t believe there is a more exciting prospect than McKinzie out there.”
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The death has been announced of Empire Maker, the sire of 12 Grade 1 winners and grandsire of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. The 20-year-old died at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky on January 18 after a battle with a rare disease that had affected his immune system. Bred and raced by Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte
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Leading North American sire by Stakes winners: Tapit (26) Leading North American sire by Graded winners: Tapit (13) Leading North American sire by Gr 1 winners: Quality Road (4) Leading North American 1st crop sire by Stakes winners: Constitution (5) Leading North American 1st crop sire by Graded winners: Constitution (4) Leading North American 1st
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