Gold Heels

Gold Heels
Gold Heels with jockey Otto Wonderly at 1902 Suburban Handicap.
Sire	The Bard
Grandsire	Longfellow
Dam	Heel-and-Toe
Damsire	Glenelg
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1898
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Alexander Cassatt
Owner	1) William C. Whitney 2) David Sloan (at 2) 3) Fred C. McLewee & Diamond Jim Brady (fall 1900)
Trainer	Matthew M. Allen
Record	41: 16-?-?
Earnings	US$47,620
Major wins
Chappaqua Handicap (1900) Spindrift Stakes (1901) Long Island Handicap (1901) Seagate Stakes (1901) Monarch Stakes (1901) Oriental Handicap (1901) Morris Park Woodlawn Vase (1901) Suburban Handicap (1902) Advance Stakes (1902) Brighton Handicap (1902) Brighton Cup (1902)
Awards
American Champion Older Male Horse (1902)

Gold Heels (foaled 1898 in Pennsylvania) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who, in a two-year period, set one new stakers record and four track records, including a world record.

Gold Heels was bred by Alexander Cassatt at his Chesterbrook Farm in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. He was sired by Cassatt's outstanding runner, The Bard, a son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Longfellow. Gold Heels was out of the very good race mare Heel-and-Toe. A daughter of four-time Leading sire in North America, Glenelg, the durable Heel-and-Toe made 107 career starts winning 21 times.

Gold Heels was purchased by William C. Whitney but after racing him a short time at age two, the colt was deemed to have limited potential and in June 1900 was sold for $1,500 to trainer David Sloan, a cousin of future Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan. David Sloan raced the colt during the remainder of 1900 in mainly lower class races, finishing the year with five wins from twenty-four starts including the Chappaqua Handicap at Empire City Race Track. Facing financial problems, David Sloan put Gold Heels up for sale and on the advice of trainer, Matthew Allen, he was purchased for $7,000 by the racing partnership of Fred C. McLewee and Diamond Jim Brady.

In 1901, under the conditioning of Matthew Allen, three-year-old Gold Heels won seven of his twelve starts while setting three track records. On June 27 he won the Spindrift Stakes in which he set a new Sheepshead Bay Race Track record for one mile and one furlong on dirt. On July 2 he won the Long Island Handicap at Sheepshead Bay and then on July 25 won the richest race for three-year-olds at Brighton Beach Race Course, the mile and one furlong Seagate Stakes. He followed this up with a ten length victory on September 25, 1901 in the one mile and one furlong Monarch Stakes at Gravesend Race Track. In winning the October 5 Oriental Handicap at Gravesend he set a new track record time for a mile and a quarter on dirt. On October 26, at Morris Park Racecourse, Gold Heels showed he was not only capable at longer distances but a truly outstanding stayer when he won the 2¼ mile Woodlawn Vase in a track record time of 3:56.00.