Golden Eagle - Salt Lake

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July 20, 2010 - LEADING SIRE SALT LAKE EUTHANIZED

Golden Eagle Farm in Ramona, California has announced leading sire Salt Lake was euthanized today. Salt Lake will be buried at the farm next to General Meeting and Best Pal. General Manager Janine McCullough said, "He had minor colic surgery a few weeks ago and appeared to initially recover well. However, within a week of being home his condition started to worsen and we sent him back to the clinic. We did everything we could, Salt Lake was a fighter, but he finally told me it was time. Great horses like him will always tell you when. It is a very sad day for me, Larry Mabee and the Golden Eagle farm staff. He was a special horse."

Salt Lake, a 21-year-old son of Deputy Minister, was purchased from John T.L. Jones Jr.'s Walmac International and stood his first season at Golden Eagle Farm in 2006. Salt Lake was the lifetime leading sire in California with 68 stakes winners and 7 Grade 1 winners to his credit. He sired champions Fantasy Lake and Salt Champ, and Grade 1 winner Ordway. With 15 crops of racing age, Grade 1 winner Salt Lake sired the earners of more than $55-million dollars.

May 25, 2010 - HISTORIC DEAD-HEAT IN JAPANESE OAKS by Alan Porter

The weekend provided the first ever dead-heat in a Japanese grade one event as Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and Japan 1,000 Guineas (gr. I) victress, Apapane, could not be separated from Saint Emilion, who we had noted as one to watch here after her win in the Sankei Sports Sho Flora Stakes (gr. II).

Apapane (TrueNicks A++) is one of four stakes winners who have already appeared from the second crop sired by Kingmambo’s son, King Kamehameha (Pedigree Consultants recommended mating), himself winner of the Japan Derby. Apapane is out of the Salt Lake mare, Salty Bid, and we can note that another Kingmambo son, Lemon Drop Kid has two stakes winners from two starters out of Salt Lake mares. He also has two stakes winners out of 18 starters by Salt Lake’s sire, Deputy Minister, and over all is 4 for 23 (stakes winners to starters) with mares by Deputy Minister and his sons. Saint Emilion Sunday Silence horse, Zenno Rob Roy (who is out of Mining’s U.S.-raced grade one winner, Roamin Rachel), now sire of four stakes winners, three graded, with his first crop of two-year-olds. Saint Emilion’s dam, a group winner over 10½ furlongs in France is by Last Tycoon, and inbred 3 x 3 to that horse’s broodmare sire, Mill Reef. The pedigree is notable for duplications of Buckpasser through the dams of Mining and Last Tycoon’s sire, who both have a double of La Troienne. Mill Reef also has La Troienne through her son, Bimelech, and appears in two of Zenno Rob Roy’s first three graded winners.

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April 13, 2010 - KING FOR A DAY by Alan Porter

The first Northern Hemisphere classic of the season, the Oka Sho-Japanese 1,000 Guineas (G1) was run at the weekend, and was captured by last year's Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Apapane (TrueNicks A++). Apapane is one of four stakes winners who have already appeared from the second crop sired by Kingmambo's son, King Kamehameha (Pedigree Consultants recommended mating), himself winner of the Japan Derby.

Apapane is out of the Salt Lake mare, Salty Bid, and we can note that another Kingmambo son, Lemon Drop Kid has two stakes winners from two starters out of Salt Lake mares. He also has two stakes winners out of 18 starters by Salt Lake's sire, Deputy Minister, and over all is 4 for 23 with mares by Deputy Minister and his sons.

December 9, 2009 - SALTY FRIES WINS CORTE MADERA as reported by CTBA Weekly

In a California-bred sweep of the top three places, Salty Fries rallied in the stretch to win the $64,400 Corte Madera Stakes for two-year-old fillies on Dec. 5, at Golden Gate Fields over Antares World, with Bleach Blonde third.

Salty Fries is by In Excess (Ire), out of the Salt Lake mare Salty Steph, and was bred by and foaled at her owner's Legacy Ranch and is trained by Terry Knight.

She has three wins in seven starts, earnings of $83,122 and was coming off a second in a Nov. 19 optional claimer.

Salty Fries ran the mile in 1:37.54 and won by a head at odds of 5-2.

July 2009 - SALT LAKE STARTS SENSATIONAL SUMMER (as reported by CTBA Magazine)

The Golden Eagle Farm stallion Salt Lake added some sizzling results to his sire statistics within a recent nine-day span.

On May 16, the 20-year-old son of Deputy Minister was flattered in Argentina when his three-year-old daughter Sonrisar (ARG) won the Clasico Circulo de Propietarious de Caballerizas (group III), a 1,600-meter test at Palermo.

Eight days later, five-year-old Solar Flare (ARG) became his sire's 65th stakes winner when he captured Monmouth Park's $67,900 Frisk Me Now Statkes by a dominating nine lengths.

Then, on May 25, Salt Lake's maternal grandson Jake Wil Gallop outran six rival three-year-olds in Lone Star Park's grassy, $100,000 USA Stakes to earn his first black-type title.

Mountain Valley, a Great End to a Successful February

Monday, February 23, 2009 as reported by Oaklawn http://www.oaklawn.com/News/Story.aspx?Id=97

Hamazing Destiny

Saturday's featured $50,000 Mountain Valley Stakes, for three-year-olds at six furlongs, is best remembered as the starting spot for Cash Is King's Afleet Alex on his Triple Crown trail in 2005. He won that race in impressive style before later adding a smashing win in the Arkansas Derby, a near-disaster in his Preakness triumph, then a spectacular and dominating performance in winning the Belmont Stakes.

That 2005 memory is so strong, that many who looked over the list of 20 nominees published over the weekend by the office of Racing Secretary Pat Pope, glanced at that list while thinking of more than what a nice group of fine sprinters have stayed eligible for the race. Suddenly there are many thingking "down the road" as they anticipate the Oaklawn Saturday feature.

The biggest decision of the week could come from Hall of Fame trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, as he maps out plans for the recent acquisition, Hamazing Destiny. Purchased last week from trainer Mac Robertson for a sum estimated in seven figures, the bay son of Salt Lake sizzled through his maiden score on February 7 in 1:10.2, the most remarkable maiden effort thus far recorded during the 2009 season at Oaklawn. His next race will be in the silks of Barry and Joni Butzow and the decision needs to be made whether to jump directly into stakes competition or to work through allowance conditions. Lukas has never ducked competition in the past and there are plenty who expect to see this talented colt take the next step and be in the starting gate on Saturday. Although his pedigree doesn't shout out "distance" and Triple Crown, his talent is freaky and he appears to be one of the most interesting prospects on the grounds not named Old Fashioned. Obviously the six furlongs of the Mountain Valley is well withing his scope.