Nyquist

NYQUIST (c, Uncle Mo—Seeking Gabrielle, by Forestry)

Apr. 15 TDN Top 12 Rank: 1

O-Reddam Racing LLC. B-Summerhill Farm (KY). T-Doug O'Neill.

Sales history: $400,000 2yo '15 FTFMAR; $230,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP; $180,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV.

Last Start: 1st, GI Florida Derby, GP, Apr. 2

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Andrew Caulfield on Nyquist

KY Derby Points: 130

Nyquist certainly has a lot to prove before he can be called another Seattle Slew, but it's uncanny have many things the two champs have in common. Slew is the last undefeated, 2-year-old champion to race in the GI Kentucky Derby. Slew was six-for-six coming into the 1977 Derby. Nyquist is seven-for-seven. Slew had won three Grade I races; Nyquist has won four. Like the Reddam Racing colorbearer, he represented the first crop of a sire (Bold Reasoning). Like Nyquist, Seattle Slew had a hard time winning over the critics, most notably Andrew Beyer and jockey-turned-TV-commentator Eddie Arcaro.