All that glitters is GOLDEN LAD! From the time his first runners came to the races in 2019, the son of MEDAGLIA D’ORO has sat atop the Mid-Atlantic’s sire rankings. He ranked as the top juvenile sire of 2023 and 2024. His first crop yielded nearly 16% stakes horses per starters, including Maryland-bred champions HELLO BEAUTIFUL, an eight-time stakes winner of nearly $600,000, and LADDIE LIAM. Sire of five-time stakes winner CAPRICE. His 2025 stakes-winning daughter TAKETHEMONEYHONEY has been first or second in all six career starts. Six-figure sales horses include Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December sale record-setter LADDIE LIAM. GOLDEN LAD finished first or second in 10 of 15 starts, to earn $645,320. A track record setter, his stakes wins included the Gr. 3 Razorback in his stakes debut and Gr. 3 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker. He is a half-brother to graded winner BROADWAY’S ALIBI, a $2.15 million broodmare and dam of Eclipse Award-winning two-time Breeders’ Cup Sprint-G1 winner ELITE POWER; and R GYPSY GOLD, and is out of a 2-year-old stakes-winning half-sister to top sire DIALED IN. His third dam is champion and Breeders’ Cup winner Eliza.
