The best racer in Hong Kong is the Australian descent Golden Sixty. He won the second group of Jockey Club one mile in Sha Tin on November 21 for the 15th consecutive race. With consecutive wins as the measurement standard, he has repeatedly won the first group championship, Golden Sixty, which is equal to Bayardo, Buckpasser, Carbine and Pretty Polly. He is only one victory away from the 16 game plateaus of champions such as Ribot, Citation and Cigar.
If he scores 17 consecutive victories, the Golden 60 will be on par with the winning streak of the legendary Australian racing driver Silent Witness in Hong Kong.
As the best horse of the year in Hong Kong in 2020, Golden Sixty was also named Hong Kong's top mile race and middle distance race last year. At that time, he won all eight races including Hong Kong one mile and one mile. In 2021, the Gulf Gelder won his four starts, including the G1 Champion Mile, the Butler Cup and the Hong Kong Gold Cup.
Undefeated since July 2019, Golden Sixty has now won 18 of 19 lifetime starts with a revenue of 80.6 million Hong Kong dollars, or approximately 9.8 million US dollars.
Golden Sixty was bred in Australia by Asco International Pty Ltd. It comes from Darley's leading international breeder, Medaglia d'Oro, located in the Jonabell Farm in Kentucky.
As one of the 26 G1 winners of Medaglia d'Oro worldwide, Golden Sixty comes from a very distinguished family and is closely related to some interesting ancient relationships. His third mare was Konafa (Damascus), a 1973 foal that was runner-up in the 1,000 Guinea Marseille in Newmarket in 1976, second only to Flyshui (Habitat). land).
Bloodstock legend EP Taylor bred most of the family members on his Windfields farm in Canada or Maryland and purchased Konafa's second mare, Queen's Statute (Le Lavandou) from Newmarket's yearling sales. Without participating in the competition, Queen's Statute has cultivated 6 bet winners for Windfields, including the Canadian champion Dance Act (Northern Dancer), and his full sister Royal Statute in the maiden competition.
Royal Statute soon became a producer and won three rights, including G1 Yorkshire Oaks champion Awaasif (Snow Knight), Akureyri (Buckpasser; G3 Fountain of Youth, G1 Florida Derby, second place, and G1 Remsen first place. Cancel the third place) and Royal Lorna (Val de l'Orne; G3 Premio Bagutta).
As a virgin champion, Royal Statute was bred as the Damascus Horse of the Year (Sword Dancer) when she was 3 years old and gave birth to Konafa as her first foal. Taylor sold Konafa for $57,000 through his Windfields Farm consignment at the Saratoga select yearling auction in 1974.
Konafa and her close relatives found their home in a select yearling auction that lasted for decades. After retiring, Konafa sold the stallion to BBA (England) in November 1980 when the Keeneland stallion was sold as an agent for Stavros Niarchos, and sold the foal to the leading stallion Mr. Prospector for $625,000.
The foal that Konafa carried is Procona, who became a heavyweight 3-year-old mare in Italy and won in G2 Premio Umbria and other competitions. Subsequently, Konafa defeated Keos (Riverman; German heavyweight old horse), listed share champions Carnet Solaire (Sharpen Up) and Korveya, also from Riverman, who is the champion of G3 Prix Chloe and the mother of three classic champions.
These are the Hector protectors (Woodman; French 2-year-old heavyweight who has won French Guinea, Poule d'Essai des Poulains, and 9 out of 10 games), Shanghai (Procida; French Guinea) and Bosra Sham (Woodman), who is a high-weight 3-year-old female and a high-weight old female. She won 7 of 10 races, including 2 of the Filly Mile, and then the 1996 England 1,000 Guinea and Championship Championships. Although Bosra Sham's career has been plagued by foot problems, horse trainer Henry Cecil called her the best horse he has trained and he has trained many classic champions. (Frankl came much later.)
Korveya's classic products represent the highest point of the family's success and reputation. The other daughters of the mare include Joe Conda (Nijinsky), who gave birth to Siro (Woodman). Ciro was a top juvenile when Longchamp won the G1 Grand Criterium. At the age of 3, he made enough progress to win the G1 Prix Lupin and the Secretariat Championship. Another daughter of Korveya, Tapatina (seeking gold) became the mother of Internallyflawless (Giant's Causeway), the G1 Del Mar Oaks champion.
Although Korveya is the star producer of Konafa’s other daughter, Leo's Lucky Lady (Seattle Slew) took second place in the Meadowlands small bet and produced seven winners, including G2 champion Gaudeamus (twisted humor), She is golden sixty.
Jim Bolger won the G2 Debutante Stakes twice in Ireland, Gaudeamus was sold privately as a southern hemisphere mare, and Golden Sixty was her third black performer and first Grand Slam champion.
Her son Golden Sixty used the horse racing dominance in Hong Kong to carry the torch for the family. In addition, this year's Breeders Cup youth turf champions all came from the Royal Statute. Modern Games originated from Konafa to Proskona, while Pizza Bianca came from Royal Statute’s daughter Victoress (a $1.1 million Keeneland July one-year-old horse by Conquistador Cielo) through Irish descent Gwynn (Darshaan) and White Hot ( Galileo), the latter is Pizza’s mother Bianca.
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