Stakes-winning hat-trick for Oasis Dream's Quinault

Stuart Williams-trained Quinault landed his third Listed race in succession yesterday in the six-furlong Garrowby Stakes at York.

Taken from the European Bloodstock News, 9th September 2024:

Eight runners went to post for yesterday’s Listed Garrowby Stakes at York, which was won by Stuart Williams’s Quinault. The four-year-old Oasis Dream gelding, previously a 310,000 guineas purchase at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale before being knocked down for 25,000gns to current owners TJE Racing at the 2022 Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale, was bringing up a hat-trick of Listed successes so far this season.

Sent off the well-backed 6/4 favourite, he broke quickly to take the lead in the early stages under the hands of Marco Ghiani, who then steered his mount over towards the stand-side rail. He travelled strongly on the front-end, closely-stalked by Purosangue, and they were the only two who managed to get seriously involved in the finish.

Quinault was pushed along two furlongs from home and stayed on well to hold off the strong challenge from Pursosanque, who finished a neck back in second as the pair pulled clear of a rather strung-out field. Korker made late headway to finish a further two and a quarter lengths back in third.

He raced once as a two-year-old when trained by Charlie Appleby and owned by Godolphin before being sold to his current owners and moving to Williams’s yard. He enjoyed a fruitful three-year-old campaign, winning seven times in handicap company, which included a defeat of this season’s Gr.1 July Cup hero Mill Stream in a 6f Heritage Handicap at Newmarket last July. Those victories saw him rise to a rating of 102, which meant a step up to Stakes level this year. He came up short on his first three attempts, in the Gr.3 John Of Gaunt Stakes at Haydock in early June, the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes at Newbury in July. He then returned to winning ways on his next start when he was dropped down to Listed company for the
Queensferry Stakes at Chester in August before following up later that month in the Listed Hopeful Stakes at Newmarket and bringing up the three-timer of Listed successes yesterday at York.

The son of Oasis Dream is a half-brother to the Listed Gran Premio d’Italia winner Queimados and is the second winner that has been produced by the unraced Dansili mare Queimada, a half-sister to the 2010 Champion Older Horse in Germany and Gr.1 (then) Premio Presidente della Repubblica winning sire Querari (Oasis Dream) and the dual Gr.2 winner and three-times Gr.1-placed Quidura. This is the immediate family of the Gr.1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes heroine Queen To Conquer.