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Breeders' Cup winner Essential Quality fuels Kentucky Derby dream for Godolphin
Unbeaten colt is grandson of Contrive, also third dam of Japanese star Contrail
Essential Quality takes the Breeders' Cup Juvenile under Luis SaezCredit: Bobby Ellis
Just months after injury knocked their top three-year-old Maxfield out of the Kentucky Derby and there is already major recompense for Godolphin in the emergence of Essential Quality.
The colt has put Godolphin back on the American Classic trail while likely winding up as the year’s champion two-year-old colt along the way.
Maxfield’s soundness blips aside, the careers of each colt have followed similar early paths.
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