Career Highlights
- Ranked among the top handicap horses of 1997
with wire-to-wire Grade I wins at Belmont
and Gulfstream Park defeating
Horse of the Year Skip Away.
- Recorded consecutive Beyer Speed ratings
of 126 (Saratoga), 124 (NTR,
Monmouth Park) and 125 (Belmont Park) in his final three starts.
- Set current 8 1/2 furlong track record at Monmouth
(1:40 1/5) and sire of Delaware Park
record holder and five-time stakes winner Trickle of Gold (G3, $467,709).
- Ranks among the Top 1% of All
Sires by 2-year-old
winners (45%) from starters for statistics through 2006.
- Formal Gold has sired progeny with global earnings of nearly $14,000,000 and
his 19 stakes winners include Graded winners Adore the Gold (G2, $236,363),
Trickle of Gold (G3, $467,709), Semaphore Man (G3, $397,110), Miss Matched
(G3, $339,799) and Transduction Gold ($244,624).
Outcross for Northern Dancer
Formal Gold is the leading money winner at stud
in North America by Horse of the Year and Breeders’ Cup Classic
winner Black Tie Affair. A stamina-siring grandson of Mr.
Prospector, Black Tie Affair is represented
by Grade I winners on three continents and progeny earnings
of over $50 million.
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