The names are well known. Proven fillies on the track and proven broodmares on the farm. From Aubby K to Zenyatta, a total of 108 Graded Stakes winners and 75 Graded Stakes producers have been bred to Medaglia d’Oro during the past two breeding seasons. While runners like undefeated champion Songbird continue to carry the “MdO” flag to victory this year, it’s this continued confidence of the world’s top breeders that will guarantee Medaglia d’Oro’s place as one of the great sires of his day.
June 21 2016
These books have fantastic stories
Medaglia d’Oro continues to attract the nation’s top mares illustrated by his 2015 and 2016 books of mares
Medaglia d'Oro
The announcement that Horse of the Year Zenyatta would visit Medaglia d’Oro this spring served to round out nicely what has to be one of the top books of any stallion in North America this year. The daughter of deceased Darley stallion Street Cry will be inducted to Horse Racing’s Hall of Fame later this summer in Saratoga, along with Medaglia d’Oro’s Horse of the Year daughter Rachel Alexandra.
Zenyatta
Aubby K, a daughter of Street Sense who won the G1 Humana Distaff Stakes, is on the list of Medaglia d’Oro's mares this year, as is Hard Spun’s Eclipse Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Questing, who won the G1 Alabama and G1 Coaching Club American Oaks. Questing also has a 2016 filly on the ground by Medaglia d’Oro.
Questing
Additional G1 winners bred to Medaglia d’Oro in 2016 include Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner and Champion Turf Female Dayatthespa, Champion Two-Year-Old Filly My Miss Aurelia, Frizette winner Dreaming of Julia, Beldame and Matriarch winner Cocoa Beach, and Ballerina winner Unbridled Forever.
The dams of high-level winners in Medaglia d’Oro’s 2016 book also read like a who’s who of the stud book. Dawn Raid, dam of 2016 G1 Preakness winner Exaggerator is included, along with the dams of three-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder, successful young sire Into Mischief, Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Stopchargingmaria, Maker’s 46 Mile winner Miss Temple City, and Arkansas Derby winner Overanalyze.
The resulting foals from Medaglia d’Oro’s 2015 matings are already turning more than a few heads, and again, exemplify the uninterrupted flow of top bloodstock year after year. Violent Beauty (dam of Medaglia d’Oro’s G1-winning son Violence) produced a filly this year, and Lemon Kiss (dam of Medaglia d’Oro’s G1-winning son Lochte) produced a full brother to the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap winner.
Medaglia d’Oro also has 2016 foals out of Kentucky Oaks winner Lemons Forever, Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Pleasant Home, Champion Two-Year-Old Filly She Be Wild, Gazelle winner Dance Card, and Santa Margarita winner Joyful Victory, as well as Mining My Own (dam of 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird), Steelin’ (dam of Eclipse Champion Two-Year-Old Shanghai Bobby), and Well Dressed (dam of Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed).
Lochte
In 2016, Medaglia d'Oro's star on the racetrack is the undefeated champion Songbird, who most recently continued her incredible run with yet another impressive victory in the G2 Summertime Oaks, taking her lifetime record to 8-for-8. His other top performers this year have included G1 Donn Handicap victor Mshawish, who captured the G1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap last year, G3 winners Cyrus Alexander and Valid, TDN Rising Star Stradivari, and recent stakes winner and TDN Rising Star Kareena, who goes next in the G1 Test at Saratoga.
Medaglia d’Oro’s 10 Blacktype winners this year is second only to Tapit, and no other stallion has sired more G1 winners this year. In 2015, his runners won more Blacktype Stakes than progeny by any other stallion. Year after year, the proof of his success is seen at racetracks around the world. And given the quality of his most recent books of mares, one might say his future is…golden.
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