Quality Road’s Integration King of the Hill Prince

[Wandering Eyes]

Heavily favored to run his unbeaten streak to three, West Point Thoroughbreds and Woodford Racing's INTEGRATION (c, 3, Quality Road–Harmonize, by Scat Daddy) made his off price of 4-5 look like an early Christmas gift, as he parlayed a perfect trip into a dominating victory in Saturday's $250,000 GII Hill Prince S. at Aqueduct. Away without incident from the three hole, the $700,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga graduate fell into the ideal spot from third, racing in clear air, as 65-1 Laurel Valley (Laoban) set a solid pace in advance of a headstrong Equitize (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the 5-1 second pick making his first start since breaking his maiden in impressive fashion at Tampa in March. Settled well off that leading duo down the backstretch, Integration began to take closer order and edged out into the three path for a clean shot at the leaders. Three wide on the swing for home, the bay drifted out several paths into the middle of the course, but kicked on decisively to put the Hill Prince well out of reach. The well-backed I'm Very Busy (Cloud Computing) made a middle move passing the half-mile to race inside of the eventual winner, but was no match late and finished runner-up ahead of Toofareastiswest (Street Sense) in third. A towering 6 1/2-length debut winner on the Arlington Million undercard at Colonial Aug. 12, Intergration upset the Sept. 9 GIII Virginia Derby from farther off the pace as a 13-2 chance. Sales history: $700,000 Ylg '21 FTSAUG. O-West Point Thoroughbreds & Woodford Racing; B-Larkin Armstrong (KY); T-Shug McGaughey.

 

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— West Point Tbred (@westpointtbred) November 18, 2023

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