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Quality Road

4 year old Colt | Active
Owner(s):
Edward P. Evans  - 
Trainer:
Todd A. Pletcher
Bred:
Virginia (USA) by Edward P. Evans  -  [Add Data]
Pedigree:
Elusive Quality  -  Kobla  by  Strawberry Road
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What the Nation is saying about Quality Road...

William Hill rates defending champ Zenyatta and Preakness and Haskell winner Lookin At Lucky as 4-1 co-favorites for the Breeders' Cup Classic as the British bookmakers opened for Cup business on Tuesday. Hill offers Whitney winner Blame at 6-1, with Whitney runner-up Quality Road at 8-1, followed b...Read More
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  • bob46 · medlocke you have the nerve to state that lucky has been running against the worst group of three olds, when in fact Zenyatta has been running against a bunch of glorified allowence horses. Please get a little reality in your life. Does her competition collectively have one win this year. In the history of horse racing, For a horse that is in the running for horse of the year her schedule has been the softest possible. She has not raced against not one credible advisory. I have one thing to say, WHERE'S the BEEF????? · 8 hours ago
  • mdracing69 · bob46, have you ever considered that Zenyatta is not ducking the competition. Rather, the quality female horses across the country have no interest in running against the win machine. It is not like Zenyatta is running in restricted races. She showed up in the G1 Apple Blossom on dirt. Where was the real competition? Possibly running scared? · 6 hours ago
The meet’s been a tough go for Kent Desormeaux. “The Kid” rode well but the facts don’t show it.  His acknowledgement that he had a drinking problem came on the first day.  Breaking a bone in his neck when a horse had a heart attack was the way it all finished.  In the fourth race, Co...Read More
  • humphrey · I have often wondered why successful people need booze. Saw it destroy two family members and am still scratching my head as to why · 11 hours ago
Quality Road returned to the winner’s circle Saturday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course with an emphatic 4 ¾-length victory in the $750,000 Woodward. Read More
Think Quality Road can be beat?  Can Big Drama pull an upset? Will there be a Pletcher Superfecta in the Spinaway? Join your fellow handicappers in the Iron Maidens Thoroughbreds  Chat Room tonight at 9:30 PM EST to discuss the Labor Day Weekend's Graded Stakes Races.  The chat has bu...Read More
  • humphrey · Quality Road regressed in his last but overall this one towers over this field: Indian Dance and Tranquil Manner will be coming late but the race will be over by then and if Convocation tries this one early, his tongue will be hanging out badly · 2 days ago
At the beginning of the year, when trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Edward P. Evans began mapping out Quality Road’s run to the Breeders’ Cup Classic, it included several key stops, including the Grade 1 Donn Handicap, the Grade 1 Met Mile, and the Grade 1 Whitney.Read More
Zenyatta once again tops Horse Racing Nation's Fan Power Rankings with Quality Road and Blame were second and third. Rachel Alexandra's rating dropped after her loss to Persistently in the Personal Ensign Handicap, but the 2009 Horse of the Year managed to hang on to fourth place over Lookin at Luck...Read More
Trainer Todd Pletcher reported that Life At Ten, who pressed Rachel Alexandra for much of Sunday’s Grade 1 Personal Ensign before finishing third, returned from the race in good order.   “She was tired, no doubt about it,” said Pletcher. “In that situation, if you’re going to try to win, and n...Read More
Trainer Todd Pletcher reported that Discreetly Mine, front-running winner of the Grade 1 King’s Bishop, came out of his 1 ¼ -length victory in good order and would most likely train up to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.   “He came out of it very well,” said Pletcher. “We felt kind of handcuffed the ...Read More
Zenyatta topped the first weekly snapshot of the HRN Active Power Rankings on Tuesday, August 24. She was followed by Quality Road in second, with Blame in third just slightly ahead of Rachel Alexandra. Lookin at Lucky rounded out the top five. Read More
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  • luvzenyatta · If you like it, be sure to log in and vote:) · 12 days ago
  • humphrey · 10 frulongs may be the waterloo of last year's HOY · 11 days ago
Trainer Todd Pletcher sent out a handful of workers early this morning on the Oklahoma training track, including Life At Ten, who is targeting next Sunday’s Grade 1 Personal Ensign and Discreetly Mine, expected to head the field for the Grade 1 King’s Bishop on the Travers Day undercard.   Als...Read More
In the classic. If everything pans out, RA, and QR could set the pace. And, most likely it will be a fast one. I believe zenyatta can handle conventional dirt. If the classic is a fast track, and the pace is even somewhat fast, then zenyatta will engulf them both with ease.
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  • sdnaples · Do you really think JJ will run RA in the Cup against Zenyatta? He races for breeding money not for racing! 3 losses in one year might hurt the sales price of a RA/Curlin yearling! · 29 days ago
  • bob46 · Hey curlin you continue to discount the poly advantage Z has. Unless you accept this fact there is no sense in having this conversation. · 18 days ago
We’re a bit more than halfway through the 2010 Saratoga meet with 22 of 40 days in the books.  Now’s a good time to look back at some of the best of what we’ve seen and also the worst.  Here are my thoughts: BEST Trainer – Even if he goes winless over the next 18 days (and that’s unlikely)...Read More
The Breeders' Cup calls itself a world championship event. That's a little hyperbolic, of course, but certainly this year's top honor for North American racing, Horse of the Year, will go down to the wire at Churchill Downs. And at this point, four horses stand out in the race for that distinction.....Read More
Trainer Derek Ryan had some harsh words about Saturday's Whitney Handicap, where Blame upset heavily favored Quality Road by a head.Ryan's runner, Musket Man, finished third, beaten just a length-and-three-quarters after pressing the pace set by Quality Road.A good effort, but it could have been bet...Read More
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  • blindadosalas · Mike, dear friend I can assure you that I've looked up the race six times, including the first, which I saw in person at a sports book in Caracas, until I saw that Haynesfield hits his door in the starting gate, I can assure you also that not have happened this mishap, Haynesfield out another, and another had been the result. Tell Mr. Ryan might not be as fussy and if you want to go further than what good has achieved in his career, to look for Bob Baffert or go to the grave of Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons Thanks .... PS: The worst hockey I've seen in my life is called Pat Valenzuela, I leave you there, buddy. · 24 days ago
  • blindadosalas · Seem like you are a gambler that is breathing thru a painfull lost, horse that can brake or hit the gate doors usually do not start good even though look fine to the vet behind the gate. Do not start good and perform poorly..... · 23 days ago
Jay Cronley depicts how racing gets a raw deal in the media.Read More
  • arazi · Good article on how Zenyatta got almost zero coverage for being the winningest horse of all time. I think a big problem is that nobody is fighting for racing anymore. The racing writers are gone. The track publicists are gone. All that's left are the track general managers, and they've either given up, or they are now slots people. · 26 days ago
  • humphrey · MOSTLY becuase there is no concerted NATIONAL effort to coordinate a media campaign. Compare it to all the other sports and you can see how BLANTANLY incompetent the PR is. They are stuck in the old mode when the "take it or leave it" of the only game in town dominated their mindset. · 25 days ago
Though the unexpected tends to interject itself often in this game, it appears possible, if all the cards fall face-up, that there is a momentum of potential building toward yet another season-ending Horse of the Year controversy in which Zenyatta is one of the central figures.As was the case at the...Read More
With a determined charge through the stretch, Blame caught heavily favored Quality Road at the wire to win a thrilling 83rd edition of the Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap Saturday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course.Read More
  • humphrey · Less than stellar ride for QH. When you have the ONLY speed in the race, that will last anyway, you go out quickly, open up,give the horse a breather and then go again..Did not happen that way. · 28 days ago
The Queen of American Racing, Zenyatta, proved once again, why she is one of the best- of- all- time racemares  that we have ever seen. Asked to "go" a little bit sooner than usual, she responded by another convincing win over a hard trying Rinterval in the Gr. 1 Clement Hirsch at Del Mar....Read More
WHITNEY (G1) QUOTES   Al Stall, Jr., winning trainer of Blame (No. 2): “I’m thrilled to death for everyone involved. The fact we were within four or five lengths from the three-eighths pole to the wire – he’s pretty tough. He’s got a great turn of foot. If he’s within striking distance of a hor...Read More
The first Saturday card featuring two Grade I stakes races is on tap Saturday (there will be three in total) and the best horse in North America is going postward in the Whitney Handicap. Quality Road will look to continue his march to the Horse of the Year crown this afternoon as he brings in [...]Read More

Quality Road - Pedigree

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Elusive QualityGone WestMr. Prospector
Secrettame
Touch Of GreatnessHero's Honor
Ivory Wand
KoblaStrawberry RoadWhiskey Road
Giftisa
WingletAlydar
Highest Trump

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View Details11/06/10Breeders' Cup Classic-G1GoalUntouchable through Met Mile. mdracing69

Quality Road - Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video09/04/101stSarJ Velazquez101 1/8 mDWoodward-G103+ MQuality RoadMythical PowerTranquil Manner1:50.00
View DetailsView Video08/07/102ndSarJ Velazquez101 1/8 mDWhitney Handicap-G103+ MBlameQuality RoadMusket Man1:48.88
View DetailsView Video05/31/101stBelJ Velazquez101 mileDMetropolitan H (Met Mile)-G103+ MQuality RoadMusket ManTizway1:33.11
View DetailsView Video02/06/101stGPJ Velazquez101 1/8 mDDonn Hcp-G104+ MQuality RoadDry MartiniDelightful Kiss1:47.49
View DetailsView Video01/03/101stGPJ Velazquez81 mileDHal's Hope-G303+ MQuality RoadYou And I ForeverCongressional Page1:36.33
View DetailsView Video10/03/092ndBelJ Velazquez101 1/4 mDJockey Club Gold Cup-G103+ MSummer BirdQuality RoadTizway2:02.51
View DetailsView Video08/29/093rdSarJ Velazquez111 1/4 mDTravers Stakes-G103 MSummer BirdHold Me BackQuality Road2:02.83
View DetailsView Video08/03/091stSarJ Velazquez86 1/2 fDAmsterdam-G203 MQuality RoadCapt. Candyman CanCaptain Cherokee1:13.45
View DetailsView Video03/28/091stGPJ Velazquez101 1/8 mDFlorida Derby-G103 MQuality RoadDunkirkTheregoesjojo1:47.72
View DetailsView Video02/28/091stGPJ Velazquez91 mileDFountain of Youth-G203 MQuality RoadTheregoesjojoBeethoven1:35.01
View Details01/10/092ndGPA Garcia107 fDAllow03 MTheregoesjojoQuality RoadObligingly1:22.23
View Details11/29/081stAQUA Garcia46 1/2 fDMSW02 MQuality RoadToulouse LautrecHeadache 1:16.11

 

 

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