Golden Choice

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Golden Choice
1988 book by Dick Sanderson
Sire:	Val de l'Orne
Grandsire:	Val de Loir
Dam:	Your My Choice
Damsire:	Barachois
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1983
Country:	Canada
Colour:	Bay
Breeder:	Windfields Farm
Owner:	Dick Sanderson & Gerry Belanger
Trainer:	Michael A. Tammaro
Record:	21: 6-3-4
Earnings:	$504,674
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Queen's Plate (1986) Prince of Wales Stakes (1986) Niagara Breeders' Cup Stakes (1986)
Racing Awards
Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1986)
Infobox last updated on: February 26, 2007.

Golden Choice (born 1983) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning Canada's most prestigious horse race, the 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 Plate Trial Stakes but then won the first two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown. The Queen's Plate was the first ever win for Golden Choice who then defeated the great filly Carotene to capture the Prince of Wales Stakes. However, in the final leg of the Triple Crown series he finished third to Carotene. Among his other victories in 1986, Golden Choice won the Niagara Breeders' Cup Stakes. His performances that year earned him the 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."

[edit] References

• Sanderson, Dick The Choice was GOLDEN :The True Story of a Racehorse (1988) Caxton Hall Publishers ISBN 0969294700
• Golden Choice's pedigree and partial racing stats