C&H Diamond Racing LLC & Baccari Racing Stable's Dream Quist (Nyquist) improved significantly on the stretch out at Ellis Sunday to become the first winner for her freshman sire (by Uncle Mo). A debut fifth as the favorite sprinting in the Churchill slop June 28, the $265,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling was off as the 5-2 second choice this time but was bumped from both sides leaving the gate. She moved up in between horses to sit perched in third and tugged her way up to challenge the pacesetter heading for home after a half in :48 flat. She started to wear down the frontrunner at the quarter pole, and spurted clear as they straightened to kick away convincingly by 3 3/4 lengths. Odds-on favorite Bahama Mischief (Into Mischief), a $300,000 KEESEP yearling who was a close second on debut at Churchill June 26, rallied to complete the chalky exacta.
Dream Quist, who sold on the final day of the final major yearling sale of 2019, is out of a mare who earned a 95 Beyer Speed Figure when taking a Lone Star sprint stakes race as a July juvenile. Dam Seacrettina (Sea of Secrets) produced an American Pharoah filly in 2019 and was bred to Street Sense for 2021.
The winner's sire, a champion juvenile who would go on to take the 2016 GI Kentucky Derby before retiring to Darley, led all first-crop sires by yearling average last season at $236,318.
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4th-Ellis, $37,000, Msw, 7-26, 2yo, f, 1m, 1:39.74, ft.
DREAM QUIST (f, 2, Nyquist#tot">Nyquist–Seacrettina {SW}, by Sea of Secrets) Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $24,570.
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O-C&H Diamond Racing, LLC & Baccari Racing Stable, LLC; B-Seclusive Farm LLC, Chester & Anne Prince & James Murphy (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek. *$265,000 Ylg '19 FTKOCT.
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