Golden Tempo Colt by Curlin – Carrumba, by Bernardini Bred in Kentucky by Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stable   Golden Tempo will try to keep rolling at Fair Grounds this weekend in the Grade 2 Risen Star after already winning the Grade 3 Lecomte in the track’s Kentucky Derby prep series. The colt’s pedigree indicates he’s up to the task of a classics campaign. He is by Hall of Famer and noted stamina source Curlin and from a deep female family from the vaunted Phipps Stable, whose descendants include 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline. Curlin was a two-time Horse of the Year who raced with distinction through the 2007 Triple Crown, winning the Preakness Stakes. His other major wins include the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic and 2008 Dubai World Cup. :: KENTUCKY DERBY 2026: Top contenders, point standings, prep schedule, news, and more He has successfully passed his stamina on as a stallion, with three winners of Triple Crown races to date – 2013 Belmont winner Palace Malice, 2016 Preakness winner Exaggerator, and 2025 Preakness winner Journalism. He is the sire of too many other major two-turn dirt winners to name in this space, including Malathaat, who won the Kentucky Oaks in 2021. The average winning distance of Curlin’s progeny is 7.68 furlongs, a very strong figure in an American racing scene with a preponderance of sprints. Golden Tempo is the first winner from two starters out of Carrumba, a daughter of leading broodmare sire Bernardini, whose daughters have produced more than 150 stakes winners worldwide, including last year’s champion Sovereignty. Carrumba also showed stamina, with her biggest win coming in the Grade 3 Top Flight at 1 1/8 miles. She placed in seven other graded stakes – including, fittingly, a third in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps. Carrumba’s dam, Castanet, is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Dancing Forever. Also appearing under Carrumba’s first three dams are Hall of Famer Heavenly Prize, Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Dancing Spree, and Grade 1 winners Bigger Picture, Fantastic Find, Finder’s Fee (the third dam of Flightline), Furlough, Good Reward, Instilled Regard, Oh What a Windfall, Persistently, and The Liberal Member. Those accomplishments are on the flat in the continental United States alone; branches of the family also have produced Grade 1-winning steeplechasers, European Group 1 winners, and champions in South America. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.