Racing Highlights
Circular Quay, who is out of the grade I-winning Belong to Me mare Circle of Life, won graded stakes in all three years in training for trainer Todd Pletcher. Racing for Michael and Doreen Tabor, he won five of 13 starts and earned $1,505,434.
At 2, he broke his maiden first time out and took the Bashford Manor Stakes (gr. III) at Churchill Downs. He shipped to Saratoga to win the seven-furlong Hopeful Stakes (gr. I), then proved to be among the top of the crop with a runner-up performance behind champion Street Sense in the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) at Churchill Downs. He finished ahead of Street Sense while running second to Great Hunter in the Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity (gr. I) over the Polytrack at Keeneland. He was the co-third high weight at 122 pounds on that year’s Experimental Free Handicap.
At 3, Circular Quay cruised to victory in the Louisiana Derby (gr. II) at Fair Grounds and ran in both the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and Preakness Stakes (both gr. I). He returned at 4 to capture the nine-furlong New Orleans Handicap (gr. II), defeating Travers (gr. I) runner-up Grasshopper.