Quality Road Firster Runs To a ‘TDN Rising Star’ at GP

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WinStar Farm and CHC Inc.’s debuting PRIME FACTOR (c, 2, Quality Road–Haylie Brae, by Bernardini), a $900,000 purchase out of the 2019 Keeneland September yearling sale–the joint-second priciest of 63 Quality Road yearlings to sell in 2019–was off as the 2-1 second choice and turned his first trip to the post into a one-horse affair en route to TDN Rising Star honors. Smoothy into stride, the bay sidled up alongside pacesetting Dr. Duke (Ghostzapper) as the top two pulled well clear of the peloton rounding the turn. Prime Factor eased to the front while racing well off the inside approaching the quarter pole, put several lengths on his rivals entering the final furlong, was taken well in hand at the sixteenth pole and jogged home to score by eight in 1:10.38. Stablemate Bracken (Speightster), himself a $285,000 Fasig-Tipton July yearling and the most expensive of 71 of his first-crop sire (by Speightstown)’s yearlings to sell last year, closed belatedly to complete the exacta. Prime Factor is, in fact, out of a half-sister to fellow ‘Rising Stars’ Speightster and West Coast Swing (Gone West) as well as SW Paiota Falls (Kris S.). The deeper female family includes champion Dance Smartly (Danzig). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0. O-WinStar Farm & CHC Inc; B-Two Hearts Farm (KY); T-Todd Pletcher.

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