Hope Road

Hope Road made three starts as a 2-year-old in 2023 including a pair of runner-up finishes against maidens and an 11th-place finish in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante. Hope Road earned her maiden win the following year in 2024 when making her 3-year-old debut off a nine-month layoff in a six-furlong dirt race at Santa Anita on June 15. Hope Road then added a wire-to-wire allowance optional claiming 5 1/2-length win at Del Mar in her next start which came at the same six-furlong distance on Aug. 4. 

Hope Road jumped back up in class against stakes competition in her next race, and was successful this time with a victory in the Grade 3 $150,000 Torrey Pines Stakes going one mile on the main track on Aug. 31 at Del Mar. Hope Road sat behind a runaway pace-setter in the Torrey Pines after being sent off as the 1-2 odds favorite in a six-horse field and then blasted to the lead on the turn and took control in the stretch to win by five lengths.

After a two-month break, Hope Road returned in search of another graded stakes win on the Nov. 2 Breeders’ Cup Championship Saturday undercard at Del Mar. She was sent off as the heavy favorite in the Grade 3, one-mile Bayakoa Stakes and validated that support with a half-length win over Alpha Bella.

Hope Road is trained by Bob Baffert. She was bred in Kentucky by the sire Quality Road out of the mare Marley's Freedom by Blame.