50th career Stakes winner sired by Medaglia d'Oro

This was the week of milestones for Darley America stallion Medaglia d'Oro, both on and off the racetrack. On September 12th, his daughter Yuzuru became his 50th career Stakes winner with her off-the-pace victory in the Forever Together Stakes at Delaware Park. Earlier in the week, during the the first day of Keeneland's Sepetember Sale, he was represented by yet another session topper with a $1.5 million-dollar yearling adding to his total as North America's leading sire of total session or sales toppers since 2007. In addition, he had two additional seven-figure yearling sell and is currently the leading active sire in North American by sales average.

But let's get back to his 50th Stakes winner. In the Forever Together Stakes, Yuzuru came within nine one hundredths of a second off the track record, getting the mile distance in a flashy 1:34.78. She ended up winning in a widening two lengths at the wire having been in sixth position by five lengths at the half-mile pole.

Out of the Gone West mare Macarena Macarena, Yuzuru was bred by Winchester Farm in Kentucky. From an outstanding family, one doesn't have to go too far back in her tail-female line to see the likes of Champions Singspiel, Glorious Song and Devil's Bag. 

Medaglia d'Oro's back catalog of Stakes winners reflects such names as Champion Rachel Alexandra, G1 Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty, 2013 G1 winner Marketing Mix as well as G1 winner Violence who will enter the stallion ranks in 2014.