NEWS
Argentine Group 1 winner Gold Spring moves to Alabama
Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Multiple Argentine Group 1 winner Gold Spring (Arg) has relocated to Kate Redmon's Never Say Never Farm in Elkmont, Alabama, for the 2007 breeding season and will stand for a fee of $750.
Gold Spring, who shuttled to Argentina in 1996, has otherwise stood in Kentucky his entire stud career. He has sired 104 winners, five North American stakes winners, and one Argentine Group 3 winner.
Gold Spring's top earner is multiple stakes winner Jake the Flake, a career earner of $553,851. Gold Spring's progeny have earned $4,428,327.
The 18-year-old Gold Trojan horse is out of the More Light mare Spring Light, an unraced sister to Argentine Group 2 winner Speeding Light (Arg). Gold Spring is a half brother to multiple Argentine champion filly Southern Spring (Arg), Group 1 winner Sun Spring (Arg), and Group 2 winner Spring Halo (Arg).
After winning ten of 17 races in Argentina, including nine stakes and three Group 1s, Gold Spring came to America in 1993 and won four times and finished second twice in six starts. He won the Aristides Breeders Cup Handicap at Churchill Downs, the Don Bernhardt Stakes at Ellis Park, and the A Phenomenon Stakes (G3) Saratoga Race Course. Overall, Gold Spring won 14 of 23 races and earned $394,830.
