FIRST STAKES WINNER FOR NYQUIST 24 Aug 2020 13:03
Champion, and
Kentucky Derby winner, Nyquist, came up with his first stakes winner when his
two-year-old son Gretzky The Great won Sunday’s Soaring Softly Stakes at
Woodbine.
Gretzky the Great, by
Nyquist, just broke his maiden on August 2nd, prevailing by four and
one-quarter widening lengths on the main track at Woodbine when that race was
taken off of the turf. Well, it appears that this precocious two-year-old might
be a horse for any course as he captured the Soaring Free Stakes on the turf on
August 23rd for his first career Stakes win and becomes the first Black Type
winner for his sire.
The colt is one of
three first-crop winners thus far for Nyquist -who won the Kentucky Derby in
2016 and who was North America’s Champion 2YO Colt of 2015.
A son of top-class
stallion, and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winning champion, Uncle Mo, Nyquist is out
of the winning Forestry mare Seeking Gabrielle.
