Bred in Canada by her owner, Eugene Melnyk, Barracks Road adds the Ontario Colleen to her growing resume which includes a victory in Woodbine’s Ontario Damsel Stakes in July. She quickly assumed the lead shortly after the start in the Colleen and never relinquished it winning by one and three-quarter lengths. Barracks Road entered the Colleen off of a narrow miss in Saratoga’s Hattie Moseley Stakes earlier this month where she was just caught at the wire, running third by a neck.
Barracks Road is a half-sister to Group two winner King of Sydney, and is out of Padmore, a winning half-sister to Group winners Sure Blade and Sure Sharp and listed winners Sure Locked and Only a Pound.
No other sire has more stakes winners in North America this year than Elusive Quality, and with Barracks Road’s win in the Colleen, he also extends his lead by number of total stakes wins which now stands at 25. Elusive Quality’s other stakes winners this year include multiple Grade one winner Quality Road and Elusive Pimpernel, a Group three winner in England.
Earlier in the day, another multiple 2010 stakes winner by Elusive Quality, the 3-year-old colt Beau Choix, ran second in the Restoration Stakes at Monmouth Park. And like Barracks Road, he too is a homebred, racing in the colors of Belle Meadows Farm and Lael Stable.
