Golden Tempo to stand at Lane's End when racing career ends
:quality(75))
This year's Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will stand at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Ky., upon the eventual conclusion of his racing career, the farm announced in a release Friday.
There is no timeline indicated for when Golden Tempo’s racing career may end. He is expected to make his next start in the Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga.
After winning the Derby, Golden Tempo, a homebred for Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stables who is trained by Cherie DeVaux, bypassed the Preakness Stakes. He is currently in training at Keeneland.
Golden Tempo’s sire, Curlin, stood the first seven years of his career at Lane’s End before moving to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm when that operation bought an interest in him. The St. Elias Stable of Vinnie and Teresa Viola co-campaigned current Lane’s End stallions Liam’s Map, sire of Preakness winner Napoleon Solo, and Up to the Mark, a champion whose first foals are yearlings. In other connections to the team, David Ingordo, who is married to DeVaux, is a bloodstock adviser and agent for Lane's End.
“We’d like to thank St. Elias Stable and Phipps Stable for entrusting Lane’s End with Golden Tempo’s stud career,” Bill Farish of Lane’s End said in the release. “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.”
Golden Tempo has won three of five career starts. He won the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes in January at Fair Grounds to stamp himself as a classics prospect, then continued on the New Orleans route to the Derby, finishing third in both the Grade 2 Risen Star and Grade 2 Louisiana Derby.
In the Kentucky Derby, he was last of 18 with a half-mile remaining and came with a dramatic late charge to win by a neck in a historic victory, as DeVaux became the first woman to train a Derby winner.
Golden Tempo was born and raised at Claiborne Farm, with which the vaunted Phipps program has deep connections. He is out of the Grade 3-winning Bernardini mare Carrumba, who is from a deep family.
Carrumba’s dam, Castanet, is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Dancing Forever. Appearing under Carrumba’s first three dams alone are Hall of Famer Heavenly Prize, Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Dancing Spree, and Grade 1 winners Bigger Picture, Fantastic Find, Finder’s Fee, Furlough, Good Reward, Instilled Regard, Oh What a Windfall, Persistently, and The Liberal Member.
Notably for Golden Tempo’s future at Lane’s End, the family includes solid sires such as Dancing Forever, Dancing Spree, Good Reward, and Pure Prize. The extended family includes Horse of the Year Flightline, who stands at Lane’s End and whose first runners are eagerly anticipated this year.
“Golden Tempo is the direct result of our family’s generations of foundational breeding,” Daisy Phipps Pulito said in the release. “Partnering with St. Elias Stables culminated in a historic Kentucky Derby win, and that is gratifying on so many levels.”
:: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.