Mystik Dan’s Derby win advanced Goldencents as Sire

gold money has been a consistently successful sire since his first crop launched in 2018, and his supporters have seen his place on the overall sire list increase as the first two crops helped him get established.

Follow in your son’s footsteps Mystik Dan After his Kentucky Derby (G1) win, Goldencents may be having his best year as a sire.

There’s no doubting Goldencents’ credentials on the track. A two-time Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner, Goldencents has rarely been outside the top two finishers, as his 7-7-0 record in 18 starts proves. Only once—his first race—did he not race with a ranked team. Earning more than 3 million USD, the son of a 5-time top tycoon into mischief began his academic career in 2015 at Spending Farm, where he stands in 2024 for $10,000.

Goldencents’ first millionaire, Mr. Tien , placing him second on the first crop sire list and then leading the second crop sire list in 2019. Mr. Money, like his sire, has run twice in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, but he never finished better than seventh and never placed 1st or 2nd. Among his wins were the Pat Day Mile Stakes (G3), Matt Winn Stakes (G3 ), Indiana Derby (G3) and West Virginia Derby (G3), including the four best races of his career. He also won the Ack Ack Stakes (G3) in his penultimate start.

When Mr. Money is coming to an end, Goldencents second millionaire, By my standards , came into his own at the age of 4. After winning the Louisiana Derby (G2) and running the Kentucky Derby at 3, it was the following year that saw him have five consecutive first or second place finishes in the stakes ratings. He won the New Orleans Classic Stakes (G2), Oaklawn Handicap (G2) and Alysheba Stakes (G2) and was second in the Whitney Stakes (G1) and Stephen Foster Stakes (G2).

My Standards’s efforts in 2020-21 have helped Goldencents retain his third and fourth season leading sire titles, and give him the two best rankings among Northern sires America as a whole—No. 15th place in 2020 and 22nd place in 2021.

Although his progeny showed his qualities on the track, Goldencents’ resume as a sire was lacking one thing: a Grade 1 winner. That was resolved at the end of 2021 when his daughter Go to Vegas won the Rodeo Drive Stakes (G1), a feat she would accomplish again the following year.

Holding steady on the combined sire list in 2022 and 2023, finishing 23rd and 25th respectively, Goldencents was led in those years by Going to Vegas and Win for gold who raced 22 times in two campaigns and did not receive graded stakes until the finale.

After that list of impressive runners, Goldencents has now taken things to the next level as the sire of a classic winner. Mystik Dan debuted at Keeneland with a second and then broke her maiden three weeks later at Churchill Downs. He followed that with a fifth due at the end of 2023 and another fifth starting this year. But things will quickly improve.

Mystik Dan won the lucrative Southwest Stakes (G3) on a sloppy track at Oaklawn Park and then finishing third in the Arkansas Derby (G1), Mystik Dan earned his entry for the Kentucky Derby and showed toughness in overcoming a small gap to take the lead and digging deep to hold off Sierra Leone And Youth forever in a three-dimensional finished photo.

Mystik Dan’s connections have said they plan to send his dam, Dear madam back to Goldencents, hoping the lightning might strike twice.

As for the latest in the rankings? Mystik Dan’s Derby win lifted Goldencents 10 spots from 15th to 5th. Mystik Dan’s $3,650,050 earnings this year represent more than half of the progeny’s earnings for the year ( $6,323,783). With at least one more classic likely in Mystik Dan’s future, plus 3-year-old development Powerful message And Gould’s Gold 2024 could not only be a successful year for Goldencents but also the start of him owning a regular spot among the best sires in North America.