Seeking The Gold

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Seeking The Gold


caption =
sire = Mr. Prospector
grandsire = Raise a Native
dam = Con Game
damsire = Buckpasser
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1985
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder = Ogden Phipps
owner = Ogden Phipps
trainer = Shug McGaughey
record = 15: 8-6-0
earnings = $2,307,000
race = Super Derby (1988)
Peter Pan Stakes (1988)
Dwyer Stakes (1988)
Swale Stakes (1988)
awards=
honours =
updated= August 10, 2007

Seeking The Gold (foaled 1985 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by the leading stud, Mr. Prospector, who in turn was a son of Raise a Native, out of the mare, Con Game.

He was raced at 2, 3, and 4, and never placed worse than second in 15 starts earning over $2 million lifetime.

Winning the Super Derby, the Peter Pan Stakes, the Dwyer Stakes, and the Swale Stakes, he placed second by a nose to Forty Niner in the 1988 Haskell Invitational Handicap, and second to Alysheba in the 1988 Breeder's Cup Classic.

As a sire

Seeking The Gold currently is standing at stud at Claiborne Farm for a fee of $125,000 (live foal). Very successful, as at 07/28/08, Seeking The Gold has sired eighty-five Stakes winners of which eighteen are Grade I winners. Some of his notable progeny includes:
*Heavenly Prize (b.1991) - won eight Grade I races, 1994 American Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly
* Flanders (b. 1992) - won Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, 1994 American Champion 2-Yr-Old Filly
* Seeking the Pearl (b.1994) - first Japan-based horse to win a Group 1 race in Europe, career earnings of $4,021,716
* Meiner Love (b.1995) - Japanese multi-millionaire
* Dubai Millennium (b. 1996) - won four Group One races, career earnings of $4,470,404
* Gold Tiara (b. 1996) - raced in Japan, career earnings of $3,548,991
* Cash Run (b. 1997) - won the 1997 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies
* Catch the Ring (b. 1997) - Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly
* Dream Supreme (b. 1997) - won 2001 Breeders' Cup Distaff
* Pleasant Home (b.2001) - won 2005 Breeders' Cup Distaff
* Wanderin Boy (b.2001) - multiple stakes winner including G1 Pimlico Special
* Bob and John (b.2003) - won 2006 Wood Memorial Stakes
* Jazil (b.2003) - won 2006 Belmont Stakes

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/seeking+the+gold Pedigree & Part Stats]
* [http://www.claibornefarm.com/stallions/seeking-the-gold.shtml Claiborne Farm Seeking The Gold]
* [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/stallion-directory/stallion.aspx?stallion_no=1043178 TB Times Seeking The Gold]