Goldencents Back at Spendthrift After Hospitalization

Goldencents   has returned to Spendthrift Farm after a hospitalization at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute due to a respiratory issue, owners WC Racing announced on Twitter June 23.

"We are happy to report that Goldencents returned to Spendthrift this afternoon in very good condition," WC Racing wrote. "While the vets were unable to give us a specific cause for the respiratory issue, he has responded well to treatment."

Shareholders of the 11-year-old son of Into Mischief   were contacted June 17 by Spendthrift and notified that the stallion had been sent to Hagyard. Goldencents responded immediately to treatment and was kept at Hagyard for continued treatment and further diagnostics. 

WC Racing wrote in a separate tweet that Goldencents is fully expected to be back in the breeding shed for 2022. The stallion stood the 2021 season for $15,000.

Goldencents, a two-time winner of the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) from 2013-14, is the leading North American fourth-crop sire by cumulative progeny earnings and the leader by number of black-type performers with 31. For 2021, he leads his sire class by number of winners (69), black-type stakes winners (five), black-type performers (11), graded stakes winners (three), and by year-to-date progeny earnings ($3,375,433). His top performer this year is 5-year-old multiple grade 2 winner By My Standards , who finished second June 5 in the Hill 'N' Dale Metropolitan Handicap (G1).