Goldencents

Goldencents
Goldencents before the 2013 Preakness Stakes.
Sire	Into Mischief
Grandsire	Harlan's Holiday
Dam	Golden Works
Damsire	Banker's Gold
Sex	Colt
Foaled	March 7 2010
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Rosecrest Farm & Karyn Pirrello
Owner	W C Racing et al
Trainer	Doug O'Neill Leandro Mora
Record	18: 7-7-0
Earnings	$3,044,000
Major wins
Delta Jackpot Stakes (2012) Sham Stakes (2013) Santa Anita Derby (2013) Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (2013, 2014) Pat O'Brien Stakes (2014)

Goldencents (foaled March 7, 2010) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning consecutive runnings of the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. As a two-year-old he ran three times, winning the Delta Jackpot Stakes and finishing second in the Champagne Stakes (United States). In the following year he won the Sham Stakes and the Santa Anita Derby before finishing unplaced in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. He was brought back to sprint distances and ran well without winning before taking the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. As a four-year-old he won the Pat O'Brien Stakes and finished second three times before winning his second Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile.

Goldencents is a bay horse with a narrow white blaze and white socks on his hind legs bred in Kentucky by Rosecrest Farm & Karyn Pirrello. He is from the first crop of foals sired by Into Mischief, whose biggest win came as a two-year-old in the 2007 Hollywood Futurity. Goldencents' dam, the Canadian-bred Golden Works, was a distant descendant of Doily, the grand-dam of Sunny's Halo.

Goldencents was consigned to the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall 2011 yearling sale and bought for $5,500 by Webb Carroll. The colt was offered for sale again in June 2012 and bought for $62,000 by Dennis O'Neill. During his racing career Goldencents has been trained by Doug O'Neill and owned by Glenn Sorgenstein's W C Racing with a variety of partners.

Goldencents made a successful racecourse debut in a five and half furlong maiden race at Del Mar on September 2, winning by more than seven lengths. In this race he was ridden by Kevin Krigger, who partnered the colt in all his early contests. He was immediately stepped up to Grade I level for the Champagne Stakes (United States) at Belmont Park on October 6. He led early but was overtaken by Shanghai Bobby and finished second, beaten five lengths. On his final appearance of the season, the colt started 13/5 second favorite for the Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes on November 17 and recorded his first major success, beating the favored Bern Identity by one and a quarter lengths.