You are bidding on and will receive the item pictured: the shoe was worn by Essential Quality in his winning effort in the 2020 Breeders Cup Juvenile.

Essential Quality is best known for winning the 2020 Breeders Cup Juvenile, 2021 Belmont and Travers Stakes, and earning Eclipse Awards as the champion two-year-old and three-year-old colt. A son of Tapit, he retired soundly and is now a successful stallion at Darley, siring stakes winners: G3 Tampa Bay Derby winner The Puma, Rushaway winner Bull by the Horns, Nashua and Jerome Stakes winner My World, Black Gold Stakes winner Black Hornet, Ellis Park Debutante winner Chopsticks, and Clever Trevor Stakes winner Essential Time.

Only Gun Runner, Into Mischief, Not This Time and Charlatan can top his four three-year-old Stakes winners in 2026.

He is Tapits’ leading money-earner and the only Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner ever to capture the Belmont Stakes, and only the seventh colt in the 53-year history of the Eclipse Awards to be named Champion at both two and three.

A COA is included. Item comes from a smoke free home. Please see pictures for specific condition of the plaque and shoe. Please note that one of the “bumpers” is missing on the back (one is still attached as pictured).