By Jill Williams
Nyquist capped an undefeated 2-year-old season with a win in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, then added the GI Kentucky Derby the next spring, becoming just the second colt to complete the Juvenile-Derby double. His fellow Darley stallion, Street Sense, was the first. Nyquist got his sire career off to a bang with his first crop including a Breeders' Cup winner of his own in 2020 Juvenile Fillies star Vequist.
“From his first season in 2017 until now, hands down the most fertile horse I've ever worked with anywhere in the world,” said Graham Lovatt, who has worked at Darley stallion divisions in England and Australia and is now the stallion manager at Darley in the U.S. “Very professional in his second career. And excellent showman. We installed a new aqua tread and he absolutely loves it. He is a very observant horse and he'll always let you know when there is something out of place.”
Nyquist (2013 bay horse, Uncle Mo–Seeking Gabrielle, by Forestry)
Lifetime record: Ch. 2yo colt, MGISW, 11-8-0-1, $5,189,200
Breeders' Cup connections: B-Summerhill Farm (KY); O-Reddam Racing LLC; T-Doug O'Neill; J-Mario Gutierrez.
Current location: Darley America, Lexington, Ky.
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