[align=center][color=green]Stallion Spotlight: [color=black] February I
NCh. Golden Text
2007 chestnut Thoroughbred stallion, 15.0hh
A.P. Indy x Gold Rush – Mr. Prospector
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This is going to be especially fun and chalk-full of information, as this is the first member-owned, game-bred, and proven stallion we’ve highlighted so far![/align]
CAREER
Bred by Edgewood Stud, Golden Text exchanged hands a number of times before being purchased February 2021 by current owner Generous Bloodstock. He made 65 starts, 51 in stakes, and won 8 races including the G1 Beach Shore Stakes, G1 Nunthorpe Stakes, G2 Silver Slipper Stakes, G2 Winterbottom Stakes, G3 Norfolk Stakes, G3 Aristides Stakes, and the G3 Star Kingdom stakes. He set one speed record at 5.5f turf, and all his career wins were going under a mile. Despite the one speed record, Golden Text’s majority earnings were on the dirt ($862,800).
His best years on the track were at 2 and 5. During his career he beat stallions Devil His Due, All Jazzed Up, Black Light II, Robin Hood, and Player.
INJURY HISTORY
In five years of racing he suffered a single cut at three.
LINEAGE
His sire, A.P. INDY, had 323 foals, 70 stakes winners and 37 MSW’s with a staggering 20 millionaires. These millionaires include GCH. AP. Valentino, GCh. A.P. Fantasy, GCh. Indy 500, NCh. Barchetta, GCh. Highland Surprise, NCh. Spinning Hill, GCh. A.P. Executive, GCh. Indy’s Drifter, GCh. Mocktail, GCh. Majestic, NCh. Aptitude, GCh. Accelorator, Ch. Navy Seal, Ch. Black Type, and many more. He has 4 gold-ranked daughters, 11 silver, and 16 bronze. He is the sire of game-bred stallions NCh. Aptitude, NCh. Golden Text (sire of stallion ICh. Calle de Oro), and the damsire of stallion WCh. Sponsored.
His dam GOLD RUSH produced 13 foals, 10 winners, and 4 stakes winners. In additional to her sole MSW, Golden Text, she produced SW’s Ch. She Whispers, Ch. Rush Home, Ch. American Rocket, and SP Ch. Westward Ho. Through her daughters she is the granddam of MSW’s ICh. Saucy Magician, GCh. Kinda Flighty, GCh. Cheeky Monkey, Ch. Mae West, Ch. Cheeky Magic, Ch. Golden Oak, and Ch. Scattered Mercury. She is by Mr. Prospector, a silver-ranked broodmare sire.
The combination of A.P. Indy/Mr. Prospector has also produced GCh. Yemen, Ch. A.P. Gold, and Ch. A.P. Prospect. Flipped, the Mr. Prospector/A.P. Indy cross has produced Ch. Digging for Love.
SIRE RECORD
At the time of this post, he is Silver-ranked (6.3). Golden Text has sired 8 crops with 39% starters, 61% winners, 18% stakes winners and 10% multiple stakes winners. He produced a stallion in his first crop with ICh. Calle de Oro.
Out of 59 current stallions w/ started offspring:
- 28th in highest winning percentage of offspring
- 4th in offspring earnings
- 7th in highest G1-placed offspring
- 5th in G1-winning offspring
Leading Earners
- [color=blue]ICH. CALLE DE ORO ($6,698,800), G1 Belmont Stakes, G1 Preakness Stakes, G1 Futurity Stakes, G1 Fountain of Youth Stakes, G1 Travers Stakes, G1 Santa Anita Handicap.
- [color=blue]NCH. DAMN U AUTOCORRECT ($2,284,800), G1 Cigar Breeders’ Stakes, G2 Bold Ruler Breeders’ Stakes, A.D. Hollindale Stakes, G2 Moonee Valley Gold Cup, 2nd G1 Epsom Derby, G1 St. Leger Stakes.
- [color=red]GCH. OLYMPIC FLAME ($2,064,200). G1 Eternal Hope Breeders’ Stakes, G2 Reisling Slipper Trial, G2 Empire Rose Stakes, 2nd G1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, 3rd Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Fillies.
- [color=red]GCH. GOLDEN TUNES ($1,601,850), G1 Mother Goose Stakes, G2 Jim Dandy Stakes, First Flight Stakes, 2nd G1 Alabama Stakes, 3rd Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.
- [color=blue]GCH. GOLDEN IDOL ($1,275,000), G1 Highland Bandit Breeders’ Stakes, G1 Hopeful Stakes, G1 Spring Champion Stakes.
Foals for Thought
Looking at 10 random multi-winners, including the above five MSW’s, 4 had their best career year at age 2 (40%), 5 at age 3 (50%), and 1 at age 4 or older (10%). His foals seem to run on both dirt and turf with an affinity for sprints and classic distances.
Currently he has produced MSW’s out of mares by Fleet Street, Satin Romance, Highland Wizard, Omaha (twice), Planet Hollywood, What’s Debatable, Crimson Lad, Dixieland Jazz, and creates. His dam’s half-sister, Kinda Sassy, is platinum-ranked with 3 MSW’s from 6 runners—MSW’s by Magic Glory (see sons Hogwarts, Glorious Victory, Ancient Magic), Major’s Flight (see son AndLikeThatHesGone), and Black Warrior (see son Holy Warrior).
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Golden Text currently stands in England at Generous Bloodstock for $7,500
He is not BC nominated and he not does require approval to breed to.
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