It was nearly a month ago when Medaglia d'Oro’s Mina Salaam took on the boys in the one-mile Phumelela Zimbabwe Guineas, a race she won impressively by five lengths. Fast forward to March 26 in the Bloodstock South Africa Stakes – again competing against the opposite sex – and the result was the same, a victory at the end of the mile-and-a-quarter event.
The three-year-old filly has now won the first two legs of the Zimbabwean Triple Crown and will aim to complete the triple in the upcoming Zimbabwean Derby. She improved her record to six wins or placings in eight career starts which includes an additional win in the Silver Slipper Stakes and a placing in the G3 Three Troikas.
Bred by Northfield’s Stud in South Africa, Mina Salaam is out of the champion South African mare Circle of Life, she a half-sister to G1 winners African Lion and Zebra Crossing.
Medaglia d’Oro, who stands this season at Darley America for $100,000, has now sired 25 career stakes winners, an ever-expanding list that also includes G1 winners Horse-Of-The-Year Rachel Alexandra, Gabby’s Golden Gal and Warrior’s Reward. These three top-level performers, plus nine others, won Stakes events in 2010 vaulting their sire to the top of the list of sires of Stakes winner aged four years and up.
Medaglia d'Oro stands for a fee of $100,000 live foal, stands and nurses.
