Nyquist (foaled March 10, 2013)[2] is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2016 Kentucky Derby and 2015 Breeders' Cup Juvenile, only the second horse to complete the Juvenile-Derby double.

[4] He is owned and trained by the same team who won the 2012 Kentucky Derby with I'll Have Another, J. Paul Reddam and Doug O'Neill.

As Reddam is a fan of ice hockey, he named the colt after Gustav Nyquist, who at the time played for the Detroit Red Wings.

On the morning of the Kentucky Derby, the NHL brought the Stanley Cup to Churchill Downs, where Nyquist (the horse) posed with it.

[8] Days after he won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Darley America purchased his breeding rights.

[9] Nyquist, ridden by Mario Gutierrez, began his racing career on June 15, 2015, in a five-furlong maiden special weight at Santa Anita Park.

He went to the lead at the top of the stretch and held off the rapidly closing Swipe by half a length, with Brody's Cause and Exaggerator just back in a blanket finish.

[14] At the Eclipse Awards for 2015, Nyquist was named American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse, taking 255 of the 261 votes.

He went straight to the lead and set moderate opening fractions, racing wide a track rated as good.

Nyquist responded and drew away from the field at the head of the stretch, then withstood a sustained drive by Exaggerator to win by 1+1⁄4 lengths.

[21] At the 2016 Preakness Stakes, on a wet track, Nyquist became the victim of a blistering early pace and came in third behind winner Exaggerator and second-place finisher Cherry Wine.

After being scratched from the Belmont, Nyquist remained at Pimlico to receive treatment, and his connections hoped at the time to start in the Travers Stakes in August.

[25] The plan from there was to run in the Breeders' Cup Classic, but the Thursday before after sluggish workout it was found Nyquist had puffy ankles and was withdrawn from the race.

[26] Shortly thereafter, he was retired to stand at Darley's Jonabell Stud in Lexington, Kentucky[27] despite his owners having purchased a spot in the Pegasus World Cup.

[30] c = colt, f = filly, g = gelding Nyquist is from the first crop of Uncle Mo, and is the first foal out of Seeking Gabrielle.

[31] Uncle Mo also sired several other stakes winners in the first crop, two of which joined Nyquist in the field for the 2016 Kentucky Derby.

[16] For example, Nyquist has a dosage profile (DP) of 1–2–1–0–0, which reflects that the two most prominent sires in his pedigree, Mr. Prospector and Storm Cat, are considered speed influences.

Kentucky Derby winner Pleasant Colony is the only "classic" influence in the first four generations of Nyquist's pedigree.