VIRGINIA-BRED QUALITY ROAD HEADED TO LANE’S END

Edward P. Evans’ Virginia-bred Quality Road, a four-time Grade 1 winner and a leading contender in the older male division, will enter stud in 2011 at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End in Versailles, Kentucky.

Quality Road will remain property of his owner-breeder and a stud fee will be announced at a later date.

Virginia-bred Quality Road is by 2004 leading general sire Elusive Quality. The four-year-old colt is out of the Strawberry Road (Aus) mare Kobla, a full sister to 1997 champion three-year-old filly Ajina.

Quality Road has won eight of 12 starts and earned $2,232,830 in three seasons. His final start will come in the Breeders’ Cup Classic Gr.I at Churchill Downs on November 6.

After winning his only start as a two-year-old in New York, Quality Road set track records in the 1 1/8-mile Florida Derby Gr.I covering the distance in 1:47.72 at Gulfstream Park, and the 6½-furlong Amsterdam Stakes Gr.II, winning in 1:13.74 at Saratoga Race Course to break a 30-year-old record, at age three. He also won the Fountain of Youth Stakes Gr.II.

This year, he set a third track record when winning the Donn Handicap Gr.I by 12 3/4 lengths in 1:47.49, which eclipsed his own 1 1/8-mile mark at Gulfstream. Quality Road also won the Metropolitan Handicap Gr.I and Woodward Stakes Gr.I this year.

“Quality Road’s unique brilliance on the race track will be greatly missed as this phase of his career comes to a close, but I look forward to his career at stud with great anticipation as I am confident he will pass that brilliance on to his foals like all great racehorses that make great stallions do,” Evans said. “We will give him every opportunity to be as successful a sire as he was a racehorse.”