Homebred Champion Essential Quality Takes His Place in Darley Stud Barn

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00:00It was a special day at Godolphin's Jonabell Farm when they had the opportunity to show

00:08off their home-bred essential quality for the first time to breeders.

00:12We stopped in and visited the four-time grade one winner and Breeders' Cup champion.

00:17I think what has been evident about essential quality from the get-go has just been his

00:23class and there's an immense sense of pride with breeding a horse of this caliber.

00:29It's truly gratifying and in one horse epitomizes what we are trying to do.

00:34We just couldn't be happier to have him here at the farm.

00:36So essential quality is the first horse in history to accomplish the Breeders' Cup

00:43juvenile Belmont Stakes double.

00:47Obviously it's a rare achievement, it's a very difficult achievement and it just epitomizes

00:51essential quality.

00:52He had the speed and precocity to win over six on debut, to win two grade ones at a mile

00:58and a sixteenth at Keeneland as a two-year-old, but yet had the stamina to win the Belmonts

01:03over an enduring mile and a half.

01:06So just his versatility and it just didn't really matter what trip he was at, he just

01:12would find a way to win and did so, so many times.

01:15He's a super intelligent horse, his pose, his composure, his intelligence, his class,

01:22I think these are all great qualities that he has shown and I think he showed those in

01:25his races.

01:26Watching the Jim Dandy, it was a very exciting race, it looked like Louis was starting his

01:33move from the midpoint of the race, but I never had a moment's worry because you know

01:38what essential quality he's going to be gaining with every yard to the wire and he's always

01:42doing his best work late.

01:43Keep me in mind, an essential quality, they battle it out in the Jim Dandy Stakes, essential

01:49quality.

01:50And obviously, sure enough, it was a little closer at the finish than we would have liked

01:54but that's just him, that's what champions do.

01:57You know, same obviously in the Belmonts, he just started working from midpoints through

02:02the race and again, had a lot of confidence in him that he's just going to be doing his

02:07best work late and that he's going to be gaining with every yard to the line.

02:10Essential quality and he's showing his quality today, the champion two-year-old has won the

02:16test of the champion.

02:18His will to win and his, you know, his almost sixth sense perception of where that finish

02:24line is, are just some of the traits that kind of set him apart.

02:27Physically, he's a gorgeous horse and just a very intelligent, attractive head to him.

02:32He just has that profile and that presence.

02:35He's by Tappet, who we've had a lot of success with, he's out of an elusive quality mare.

02:41She is a grade three placed mare at delightful quality.

02:45She is of course, a half sister to Folklore, who was champion two-year-old filly here in

02:48North America and of course, Folklore is the third dam of Contrail, who won the Japanese

02:53triple crown.

02:54I mean, he represents some of the best sires that we've had here in North America.

02:57So he really is an amalgamation of all those great sire lines.

03:02Essential quality is coming in at a stud fee of 75,000, I think he's all the ingredients

03:07to make a successful stallion.

03:09You know, it's not easy to get a horse to amass his race record, to present the physical

03:17that he presents and to bring the female family.

03:20He's going to be probably one of the most sought after freshmen sires, if not the most

03:24sought after freshmen sire this year, and his book will certainly reflect that status.

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