QR will probably be a great stallion..most of your top milers are...and yes QR was NOT a 1 1/4 horse. ive seen him in person a couple times but i have a hard time with him because i cant help but think if he hadnt stopped in front of Z on the turn in the classic, mike doesnt have to swing out and restart her and she blows right by blame..oh well, woulda coulda shoulda...congrats on being 1/1
Yeah Kurt that is a thought in my mind too but, I still just love that guy. I also wish Z had been just a little closer early in that race. Make that 3 on ACK! on that name poor guy got stuck with a horrible one for sure!
QR is a beautiful horse up close. He has a lovely head.
I agree that him stopping in front of Zenyatta probably cost her the race. Not his fault--he should have been in the Dirt Mile, IMO. He would have eaten that field for lunch.
I agree Lauraj I think he should have been in the mile. I hope this winner is just the first of many. Kalar you are cracking me up Hooten Annie hahaha that is alot cuter than the poor colt getting stuck with that name.
Hootenanny is running on May 16th in the Rollicking Stakes at Pimlico. He will be ridden by Leonardo Goncalves. He is trained by Wesley Ward and owned by Keith Donworth.
Thank you QueenZFan20 for the heads up. I haven't been on in a couple of weeks. Do you know how Hootie ( sorry had tochange that awful name) did?
Hootenanny is running on May 16th in the Rollicking Stakes at Pimlico. He will be ridden by Leonardo Goncalves. He is trained by Wesley Ward and owned by Keith Donworth.
Quality Lake is running June 11th in a maiden special weight at Northlands Park. He will be ridden by Rafael Zenteno Jr. He is trained by Joan Petrowski and owned by Victor and Sharon Kleparchuk.
Thank you Rachel and QueenZFan22 for updates! Glad to see he did well! He beat a large field. Hope to see some QR babies lighting up the boards on both sides of the pond : )
There were good stakes in three countries over the past week that featured the younger set, with trainer Wesley Ward’s big lick at Royal Ascot coming with the 2-year-old Hootenanny, who blazed away from his competition in the Windsor Castle Stakes to win by 3 ½ lengths from 23 competitors, racing the five furlongs in :59.05.
The lanky-looking colt proved plentifully progressive and rewarded his owners, John Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith, with the first stakes of the Royal Ascot meeting.
Hootenanny is the first stakes winner for his sire, the Elusive Quality horse Quality Road. A really big horse of exceptional ability, Quality Road won four times at the Grade 1 level (the Florida Derby, Metropolitan Handicap, Woodward, and Donn) and was three times placed in G1s, including the Whitney at Saratoga, when narrowly defeated by champion Blame.
Quality Road came to his best form at 3, and getting such a precocious performer, on turf no less, suggests that broodmare sire Hennessy was a handy part of the equation that produced this good young performer. Although Quality Road was not a turf horse, his sire ran a record mile on the surface and has sired highweights and a classic winner on turf, like his sire Gone West. For them, all surfaces are alike, and the definitive measure is class. Quality Road stands at Lane’s End Farm for $25,000.
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I agree that him stopping in front of Zenyatta probably cost her the race. Not his fault--he should have been in the Dirt Mile, IMO. He would have eaten that field for lunch.
Thank you QueenZFan20 for the heads up. I haven't been on in a couple of weeks. Do you know how Hootie ( sorry had tochange that awful name) did?
The lanky-looking colt proved plentifully progressive and rewarded his owners, John Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith, with the first stakes of the Royal Ascot meeting.
Hootenanny is the first stakes winner for his sire, the Elusive Quality horse Quality Road. A really big horse of exceptional ability, Quality Road won four times at the Grade 1 level (the Florida Derby, Metropolitan Handicap, Woodward, and Donn) and was three times placed in G1s, including the Whitney at Saratoga, when narrowly defeated by champion Blame.
Quality Road came to his best form at 3, and getting such a precocious performer, on turf no less, suggests that broodmare sire Hennessy was a handy part of the equation that produced this good young performer. Although Quality Road was not a turf horse, his sire ran a record mile on the surface and has sired highweights and a classic winner on turf, like his sire Gone West. For them, all surfaces are alike, and the definitive measure is class. Quality Road stands at Lane’s End Farm for $25,000.