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. .LIBERTY GOLD, chestnut, 1994, by Crafty Prospector--Restless Colony, by Pleasant Colony. . ![]() Liberty Gold won or placed in graded stakes races at Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Keeneland and Churchill Downs, including the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, and retired with earnings of $598,963. Liberty Gold retired sound following a racing career that encompassed 44 starts over seven seasons. He won at Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Keeneland, Churchill Downs (equaling the track record for 7 1/2 furlongs), Saratoga and Monmouth Park, and recorded triple Beyer speed figures at four of those tracks. Liberty Gold won at distances ranging from six furlongs to a mile and a sixteenth. His ability was concentrated in the sprinter/miler area, the aptitude group that consistently produces the best sires. Liberty Gold is by Mr. Prospector's leading son at stud, Crafty Prospector, sire of 144 stakes horses, including 84 stakes winners, and earners of more than $76,000,000. Liberty Gold consistently passes his excellent conformation on to his foals as their performance on the track suggests. He was Washington's leading freshman sire with his first crop. Liberty
Gold stands at El
Dorado Farms at a fee of $2,000, live foal.
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Chestnut, 1994, by Crafty Prospector--Restless Colony, by Pleasant Colony
Liberty Gold stands at El Dorado Farms, 41818 228th Street NE, Enumclaw, WA 98022 Telephone: (360) 825-7526 / Fax: (360) 825-6475 E-mail: eldoradofarms@tx3.net Inquiries to Nina or Ron Hagen at the farm or to Debbie Pabst, syndicate manager, at (253) 862-9076 Liberty Gold's 2008 stud fee is $2,000, live foal (discounts for two or more mares) Property of a syndicate Nominated to the Northwest Stallion Stakes and the Breeders' Cup . For an isolated pedigree page for convenience in printing, click here. . |
At 3: Won an allowance race at Saratoga (7 furlongs). At 4: Won an allowance race at Belmont Park (1 1/16 miles), an allowance race at Keeneland (1 1/16 miles), an allowance race at Belmont Park (1 mile). At 5: Won an allowance race at Belmont Park (1 mile), an allowance race at Keeneland (7 furlongs), an allowance race at Monmouth Park (1 mile 70 yards), 2nd Churchill Downs H. (G2) at Churchill Downs (7 furlongs), 3rd Metropolitan Handicap (G1) at Belmont Park (1 mile). At 6: Won an allowance race at Churchill Downs (7 1/2 furlongs, equaled track record, 1:28 4/5), 2nd Ben Ali S. (G3) at Keeneland (1 1/8 miles), Gravesend H. (G3) at Aqueduct (6 furlongs). At 7: Won Aqueduct H. (G3) at Aqueduct (1 1/16 miles), 3rd Commonwealth Breeders' Cup S. (G2) at Keeneland (7 furlongs), Brandywine S. (L) at Delaware Park (1 mile). For an explanation of stakes
designations, click here.
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Liberty
Gold was Washington's leading freshman sire of 2005 by a wide
margin. He is the sire of 34 winners, 14 from his first crop, 12 from his
second, and eight from his third, 3-year-olds of 2008. His runners include
stakes winners
Cinderella Liberty (Washington champion 2-year-old
filly--4 wins at 2, placed at 3, 2007, $94,918, Northwest Stallion
Knights Choice S., Diane Kem S.) and
Hesademon
(3 wins at 2, 2007,
$26,786, Alberta Bred S., Alberta Two-Year-Old Sales S.. Bully's Futurity).
He's also the sire of Liberty for Al (winner at 2 and 3, 2007, $58,967,
2nd Northwest Stallion Strong Ruler S.). Liberty Gold's runners have earnings
of more than $650,000.
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Out of a mare by Pleasant Colony (1978), champion 3-year-old, $985,383, Kentucky Derby-G1, Preakness S.-G1, etc. Sire of 71 stakes winners, more than $62,000,000. Sire of the dams of 56 stakes winners, including Farda Amiga (champion, $1,282,302), Hero's Love (champion, $780,120), Summer Colony ($1,222,430), Urbane ($1,018,568), etc. 1st dam
2nd dam
3rd dam
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