Dr Post to Enter Stud in Argentina

Dr Post , a multiple grade 1-placed, grade 3-winning son of Quality Road  , has been purchased by Haras La Nora and will enter stud this year in Argentina, according to a June 13 report by Turf Diario.

The 6-year-old bay will stand his first season at Haras La Pasión, which is part of a breeder coalition supporting the new stallion that includes Haras Firmamento and likely to add others.

"He was a good racehorse and has both top-notch physique and pedigree. La Pasión and Firmamento will also be working together with us, and the expectations that surround us all are enormous," Alejandro Lusa with La Nora told Turf Diario.

Bred by Cloyce Clark in Kentucky, Dr Post is out of the Hennessy grade 2 winner Mary Delaney. Agent Jay Goodwin bought the mare for $25,000 on Clark's behalf at the 2017 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale. She was in foal with Dr Post, who would later be sold for $200,000 as a weanling and then $400,000 as a yearling to pinhooker J.J. Crupi. The colt wound up being campaigned by Vincent Viola's St. Elias Stable and was trained by Todd Pletcher.

Dr Post became a winner in his first start at 3 and immediately followed with his first stakes victory in the Unbridled Stakes at Gulfstream Park. In his third start of 2020, he ran second to Tiz the Law   in the Belmont Stakes (G1) and next finished third in the Haskell Stakes (G1). He would win two graded stakes at 4, taking the Westchester Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park and the Monmouth Cup Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park. He placed in two other grade 1 stakes during his career, finishing third in both the Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) and Woodward Stakes (G1).

After racing from 2 to 5, Dr Post retired with a 4-1-3 record from 13 starts and earnings of $888,422.

Dr Post will be the first son of Quality Road to stand in Argentina, according to Turf Diario. A son of Elusive Quality standing at Lane's End for $200,000, Quality Road currently ranks third on the BloodHorse general leading sires list with nearly $7.7 million in progeny earnings. He is the eighth-leading active North American sire by number of lifetime grade/group 1 winners with 15 and is the sire of this year's Preakness Stakes (G1) winner National Treasure .

Mary Delaney traces tail-female to grade 1 winner Fiesta Lady (Secretariat), who is the granddam of multiple grade 1 winner Thorn Song.