Golden Choice
| Golden Choice | |
|---|---|
Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1986) | |
| Last updated on November 1, 2007 |
Golden Choice (foaled 1983) is a Canadian
Queen's Plate. Sired by Val de l'Orne, the 1975 Prix du Jockey Club winner, his damsire was Barachois, a son of Northern Dancer. Golden Choice was purchased as a yearling for $60,000 at the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (CTHS) sale at Woodbine
.
Racing as a three-year-old, he finished third in the 1986
Sovereign Award for Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse
.
His co-owner, Richard "Dick" Sanderson, wrote a book about Golden Choice titled The Choice was GOLDEN :The True Story of a Racehorse. Noted ABC sportscaster Jim McKay said of the book: "There are more good stories in horse racing than in any other sport. This is one of them."
References
- Sanderson, Dick ISBN 0-9692947-0-0
- Golden Choice's pedigree and partial racing stats