Fast Anna runs to his name

Sent off as the 1-9 favorite, Medaglia d'Oro’s talented son Fast Anna didn’t disappoint in his first start of 2015, winning the Sawgrass Handicap at Gulfstream Park on June 11 in wire-to-wire fashion. The four-year-old just missed in the G1 King’s Bishop Stakes at Saratoga last year.

Pressed through early fractions of :21:29 and :43:72, the dark bay or brown colt was able to pull away from his dueling partner at the top of the stretch with enough to hold on for his first career Stakes win.

Bred and owned by Frank Calabrese, Fast Anna is out of Calabrese’s Champion Dreaming Of Anna, who won the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in 2006. This is also the immediate family of Champion Kitten’s Joy and three-time G1 winner Precious Kitten.

With 14 Northern Hemisphere Stakes winners in 2015, Medaglia d’Oro leads all other stallions in that category. Mshawish became his sire’s 12th career G1 winner when winning the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap in February, with Vancouver taking that number to 13 when capturing the G1 Golden Slipper in March.

Medaglia d’Oro’s 2015 fee is $125,000, live foal, stands and nurses.