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HEART of a CHAMPION Essential Quality Outruns Midnight Bourbon in Travers See Page 3 SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2021 BLOODHORSE.COM/DAILY ANNE M. EBERHARDT ANNE M. HEART OF A CHAMPION Essential Quality Outruns Midnight Bourbon in Travers See page 3 IN THIS ISSUE 10 Letruska Holds Personal Ensign Rivals at Bay 13 Yaupon Repels a Savaging Firenze Fire in Forego 16 Champion Whitmore Retired, to Visit Rood & Riddle BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 44 CONTENTS 3 Essential Quality Outruns Midnight Bourbon in Travers 9 Leading First-Crop Sires 10 Letruska Holds Personal Ensign Rivals at Bay 13 Yaupon Repels a Savaging Firenze Fire in Forego 16 Champion Whitmore Retired, to Visit Rood & Riddle 20 Jackie’s Warrior Bests Life Is Good in H. Allen Jerkens 22 Gamine Adds Ballerina Trophy to Collection 24 Gufo Edges Japan in Sword Dancer Photo Finish 25 Viadera Battles to Ballston Spa Victory 26 Del Mar-Loving Ginobili Scores in Pat O’Brien 27 Octane, Outfoxed Capture Florida Sire Stakes Divisions 29 Lavender’s Blue Upsets Benbatl in Celebration Mile 30 Behemoth Stands Tall to Retain Memsie Crown 32 Supplemented Medina Spirit Returns in Shared Belief 33 Results & Entries SKIP DICKSTEIN TAA a ccreditation: The G o l d S t a n d a r d in aftercare. A publication of The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc. and TOBA Media Properties, Inc. ON THE COVER Luis Saez and Essential Quality are led into the winner’s circle Editorial Director General Manager by Darwin Valenzuela after winning the Aug. 28 Travers Stakes Claire Crosby Scott Carling at Saratoga Race Course Visuals Director Digital Media Manager Anne M. Eberhardt Erin Morgan Bloodstock Editor Senior Web Producer LATEST HEADLINES Eric Mitchell Christine Wittmer from Bloodhorse.com Features Editor Digital Content Coordinator Frank Angst Michelle Benson » Il Malocchio Gives Drexler Noteworthy Win in Bison City News Editor Regional Sales Managers Byron King Kristi Heasley Catherine Johnston » Ellis Park to Honor Heroes Who Saved Horses in Fire Sales Editor Ellen Lambertus Lauren Gash Amanda Ramey Assistant Editors Director of Technology » Delaware Cancels Sept. 2 Due to Insufficient Entries Debbie Tuska Courtney Bearse Christine Oser Senior Columnist Molly Rollins Jay Hovdey » Vigilantes Way Among Seven Lopez Winners at Monmouth Senior Correspondent Pedigree Analyst Bob Ehalt Alan Porter Contact Us: Editor: [email protected] • Advertising: [email protected] BLOODHORSE DAILY SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2021 PAGE 2 OF 44 ESSENTIAL QUALITY OUTRUNS MIDNIGHT BOURBON IN TRAVERS By Bob Ehalt t @BobEhalt o horse will ever eclipse NMonomoy Girl in Brad Cox's heart. She was the trainer's first grade 1 winner, a Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) victress plus a two- time champion and the horse who prevailed in two editions of the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1). But that doesn't mean there cannot be a dead-heat for the top ANNE M. EBERHARDT ANNE M. spot. Jimmy Bell (left), Dan Pride (center, back), Luis Saez (blue silks), Gov. Kathy Hochul That was the feeling for Cox, (right), and winning connections enjoy the Travers Stakes trophy presentation 41, as emotions welled up in him "He's very, very special. He I don't want to split it. I love them after watching yet another brilliant really is," Cox said after Essential both and they are special horses. performance by Godolphin's Quality, the champion 2-year-old "This horse is a first-ballot Hall Essential Quality, a gifted colt who male in 2020, won for the eighth of Famer," he added. "He's a great keeps challenging his trainer to time in nine starts. "It's hard to horse and you're not going to get find new superlatives for him. explain what it feels like because horses like him every year. A horse This time it was "special" as words can't describe it. You work so like him is few and far between." the homebred son of Tapit added long and have so many horses and As big a fan of Essential Quality to an already dazzling legacy by we've had Monomoy Girl and other as Cox may be, there was one other outdueling Preakness Stakes (G1) champions, but he's right there backer of the multiple grade 1 winner runner-up Midnight Bourbon with her for sure. I'm just going to that caught Cox by surprise. In to the wire to capture the Aug. say it's a dead-heat presenting the Travers trophy to Cox, 28 centerpiece $1,225,000 between him and jockey Luis Saez, and Jimmy Bell, Runhappy Travers Stakes Monomoy Girl and president of Godolphin USA, newly (G1) for 3-year-olds by installed New York Governor Kathy a neck before a crowd Hochul let her allegiance be known. of 44,507 at Saratoga Race Course. (continued on page 5) All you have to do is ask, and (Essential Quality) will deliver whatever you want. —JIMMY BELL ANNE M. EBERHARDT BLOODHORSE DAILY SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2021 PAGE 3 OF 44 The Essential Sire! TAPIT... America’s #1 all-time leading sire by progeny earnings continues his reign of dominance, shaping the breed and creating horses of a lifetime! ESSENTIAL QUALITY 2021 TRAVERS STAKES (G1) WINNER Owner/Breeder: Godolphin Trainer: Brad Cox TAPIT BRIAN GRAVES / SEAN TUGEL / LAKOTA GIBSON: (859) 293-2676 ESSENTIAL QUALITY OUTRUNS MIDNIGHT BOURBON IN TRAVERS (continued from page 3) "She told me she was a fan of this horse," Cox said. "That meant a lot. It was pretty cool." Finding something not to like about Essential Quality is an arduous task. He's done everything right in his career, except for that race on the first Saturday in May when he finished a wide fourth in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) after bumping at the start, losing by only a length. Since then, he rebounded to take the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1), the Jim Dandy Stakes (G1), and now the Midsummer Derby at the Spa. The combined margin of victory in that trio of wins was about EBERHARDT ANNE M. two lengths, but there was little doubt in each that he was (L-R): Livia Frazar and Brad Cox in the winner’s circle at Saratoga the best horse. Just as it seems virtually certain that he "Maybe we haven't seen the best from him. He's will eventually be named the champion 3-year-old. just 3," Cox said. "He keeps getting better. He's that Added to all of that, with the Nov. 6 Longines good, he's that intelligent, and he's a tremendous Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) on the horizon, we may not horse." have seen the best from the son of the Elusive Quality mare Delightful Quality. (continued on page 6) BLOODHORSE DAILY SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2021 PAGE 5 OF 44 ESSENTIAL QUALITY OUTRUNS from Niall Brennan about him. He can go wherever you MIDNIGHT BOURBON IN TRAVERS want him to go and do whatever you want him to do. All you have to do is ask, and (Essential Quality) will (continued from page 5) deliver whatever you want. It's always a surprise (when they turn out to be this good) but it's not a surprise that He's also durable and has remained in peak form for he had so much talent. The surprise is what he's done an amazing period of time. He became only the eighth in the afternoon with all that talent." 2-year-old champion in the Breeders' Cup era (since On Saturday, it took talent and determination to 1984) to win the Travers and stands along with Street add another victory. Sense as one of two horses to win the Breeders' Cup When last seen in grade 1 company, Winchell Juvenile (G1), be named 2-year-old champion, win a Thoroughbreds' Midnight Bourbon was stumbling Triple Crown race, and add a Travers victory. and unseating his rider when Hot Rod Charlie For the entire Godolphin team, there was drifted into his path in the TVG.com Haskell satisfaction in seeing a homebred continue to post one Invitational (G1) at Monmouth Park. Unscathed grand achievement after another. from that July 17 mishap, the son of Tiznow had a "I want to thank and acknowledge (Godolphin great trip in the 1 1/4-mile Travers. owner) His Highness Sheikh Mohammed," Bell Under Ricardo Santana Jr., he set the early pace said. "This is a great accomplishment for the whole and was ahead by 3 1/2 lengths after a half-mile in a Godolphin team to be a part of this magical ride. It says very comfortable 1:14.49. Essential Quality was second a lot about his breeding and racing program to be able at that point and, in a race where Miles D would finish to put an athlete like this to the forefront as a 2-year-old third, five lengths behind Midnight Bourbon, it turned and a 3-year-old. He's brought a lot of joy to everyone. out to be a two-horse duel to the wire. "It's been a great team effort. Brad and his team have done a great job. I remember the early comments (continued on page 8) BLOODHORSE DAILY SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2021 PAGE 6 OF 44 ESSENTIAL QUALITY Find your Kentucky-bred at the Keeneland September Sale Sept. 13 - 24 $1,250,000 TRAVERS S. (G1) $600,000 FOREGO S. (G1) ESSENTIAL QUALITY YAU P O N Owner: Godolphin Owner: William & Corinne Heiligbrodt Breeder: Godolphin Breeders: Betz, Lamantia, CoCo Equine, Magers and Burns Trainer: Brad Cox Trainer: Steve Asmussen $750,000 SWORD DANCER H. (G1) $500,000 BALLERINA S.
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