![]() “Gary purchased several mares at the sale and we've also purchased mares privately for him,” Carr said. “He was a champ with everything we did with him.”Ĭore Beliefs has been busy throughout his first weeks of stud duty, with mares coming in from both outside breeders and from Broad's own broodmare band. “He showed a lot of speed and stamina and he never took a bad step,” Hansen noted. He retired as his owner's leading earner with just short of $1 million in earnings. in his 4-year-old debut and went on to race through his 6-year-old season. | Sarah AndrewĬore Beliefs won the GII New Orleans H. “All the way around the track he was four or five wide, but he still had enough to finish and just get up to beat Lone Sailor (Majestic Warrior).”Ĭore Beliefs takes the 2019 GII New Orleans H. “What was really impressive about him that day is he got a really wide trip,” Hansen remembered. We battled Instilled Regard (Arch), who turned out to be a pretty good horse, for third.”Īfter the Grade I placing, the bay ran second in the GIII Peter Pan S. He was coming off a maiden win going to the top of the bunch. “We knew he could run long, and that's always a big plus with an early 3-year-old, so we threw him into the Santa Anita Derby against Bolt d'Oro and Justify,” said Hansen.”He tried very hard. The win was so impressive that from there, he made the jump to the GI Santa Anita Derby and finished a respectable third. He showed a lot of class and speed with the few works that we did with him.”Ĭore Beliefs placed in his first two starts as a 3-year-old, but broke his maiden by over three lengths when asked to stretch out to a mile and a sixteenth. “Our riders were really high on him from the beginning. “Gary likes to give them a little bit of a break after the sale, so were really patient with him and gave him a month off at the farm before we started legging him up,” Hansen explained. The colt went through his early training with Hansen at San Luis Rey Training Center before transferring to Peter Eurton. It was one of the best of the morning.”īroad opted to give his $350,000 purchase a rest after the sale instead of sending him straight to the racetrack. “There weren't a lot of horses that went :10 flat, and the thing about Core Beliefs was not only did he go :10 flat but his gallop out was really good. “The track was very demanding that day,” Hansen recalled. He's gorgeous.”īroad purchased Core Beliefs at the 2017 Barretts March 2-Year-Old Sale at Del Mar, where advisor Scott Hansen was on hand for the juvenile colt's :10 work. ![]() If someone sees his physical, that is what's selling him. “All of their progeny seem to be doing so well and are well-accepted at the sales, so we felt like Core Beliefs would have a shot as another son of Quality Road and with the physical he has. “The main reason that we decided to stand Core Beliefs this year was because of the success of Quality Road and City of Light,” explained farm manager Dawn Carr.
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