Qualify (horse)
| Qualify | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Fastnet Rock |
| Grandsire | Danehill |
| Dam | Perihelion |
| Damsire | Galileo |
| Sex | Filly |
| Foaled | 22 April 2012 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Color | Bay |
| Breeder | Whisperview Trading Ltd |
| Owner | Louis & Kate Ronan Chantal Regalado-Gonzalez |
| Trainer | Aidan O'Brien |
| Record | 11: 3-0-1 |
| Earnings | £316,185 |
| Major wins | |
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C. L. Weld Park Stakes (2014) Epsom Oaks (2015) |
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Qualify (foaled 22 April 2012) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. On 5 June 2015 she was a 50/1 winner of the Epsom Oaks. She ran seven times as a juvenile in 2014, winning a maiden race and the Group Three C. L. Weld Park Stakes but was well-beaten when tried against the best fillies of her generation in the Moyglare Stud Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. In the spring of 2015 she was initially disappointing as she finished unplaced in both the 1000 Guineas and the Irish 1000 Guineas before being stepped up in distance and winning the Oaks.
Qualify is a bay filly with a white star bred in Ireland by Whisperview Trading Ltd a company wholly owned by the trainer Aidan O'Brien and his wife Anne Marie. She was sired by the Australian stallion Fastnet Rock who sired many leading horses including Foxwedge and Atlantic Jewel in the Southern hemisphere before moving to the Coolmore Stud in Ireland. Qualify's dam Perihelion won one minor race from fourteen starts but finished second in the Park Hill Stakes as a three-year-old in 2008. Perihelion was a granddaughter of the broodmare Media Luna, whose other descendants have included Workforce, Brian Boru and the Kentucky Oaks winner Flute. Qualify was sent into training with O'Brien at Ballydoyle.
As a two-year-old, Qualify raced in the ownership of Louis & Kate Ronan. On her racecourse debut she finished fourth when a 20/1 outsider for a maiden race at the Curragh on 27 June. Despite her defeat she was moved up in class to contest the Group Three Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown Racecourse a month later and finished third to Jack Naylor (a filly despite her name) after leading for mot of the race. When dropped back to maiden company at Dundalk Racecourse on 17 August she started odds-on favourite and recorded her first success, leading all the way and winning "comfortably" by five and a half lengths from eight opponents. Seven days later in the Group Two Debutante Stakes, she raced in second place before weakening in the closing stages and finishing fifth behind Raydara.
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