Golden Lode claims WA 4YO & 5YO Championship
Golden Lode is the latest stakes winner for leading sire Always B Miki, with an impressive performance in the $50,000 Group 3 Allwood Stud 4YO & 5YO Championship at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
The Greg and Skye Bond trained 5-year-old came from near last to race three wide without cover for the last lap and proved too strong in the closing stages for a gallant Runkle Crunch (Captain Crunch), who had sat parked for the majority of the race, winning by just over a length at the line
It was a deserved stakes success for Golden Lode, with the promising pacer having finished second in both the Group 1 Fremantle Cup and the Group 1 Nullarbor in his previous two starts. It was his 14th career win and took his earnings to $518,018.
Bred by Alabar NZ, Golden Lode is out of the Group 1 winning Dream Away mare Yankee Dream, making him a full brother to the Group 2 Franklin Cup winner Miki Shan.