Upon the conclusion of his racing career, Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Golden Tempo will enter stud at Lane's End Farm.
A homebred for Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stable, Golden Tempo is 3-0-2 in five starts with earnings of $3,433,000. Besides his classic victory over Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Renegade in the Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs, he won the Lecomte Stakes (G3) and a maiden race at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots over the winter. He also showed in the Risen Star Stakes (G2) and Louisiana Derby (G2) for trainer Cherie DeVaux, who became the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby with Golden Tempo's triumph in the May 2 race.
He hails from a deep Phipps Stable family, produced from the graded-stakes-winning Bernardini mare Carrumba.
"Golden Tempo is the direct result of our family's generations of foundational breeding. Partnering with St. Elias Stables culminated in a historic Kentucky Derby win, and that is gratifying on so many levels," co-breeder Daisy Phipps Pulito said in a release distributed on behalf of Lane's End.
Golden Tempo is by elite sire Curlin , the sire of 26 grade 1 winners including three other classic winners. Curlin has sired eight individual Eclipse champions and six Breeders' Cup World Championship winners who have accumulated a total of eight Breeders' Cup wins.
"We'd like to thank St. Elias Stable and Phipps Stable for entrusting Lane's End with Golden Tempo's stud career. Golden Tempo fits the classic profile that Lane's End has long been associated with, and his pedigree has such a deep foundation of grade 1 winners and producers, in addition to being by a top sire," Lane's End Farm general manager Bill Farish said.
Carrumba is a fifth-generation homebred for the Phipps family, tracing back to their foundation mare Blitey. Golden Tempo's deep pedigree contains at least seven other grade 1 winners across four generations, including multiple grade 1 winner and 1994 champion 3-year-old filly Heavenly Prize, along with grade 1 winners Dancing Forever, Dancing Spree, Good Reward, Oh What a Windfall, Fantastic Find, and Furlough.
No announcement of whether Golden Tempo would race next year was made by Lane's End Farm. Stud fee announcements usually come in the fall.
After skipping the May 16 Preakness Stakes (G1) at Laurel Park, Golden Tempo is scheduled to race next in the June 6 Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, where he is expected to face Renegade, among other leading 3-year-olds in the third and final leg of the Triple Crown.
This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.
