Golden Tempo will stand at Lane’s End after he is retired

Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will enter stud at Lane’s End Farm when his racing career has ended.

 

A homebred for Phipps Stable & St. Elias Stables, Golden Tempo broke his maiden as a 2-year-old at the Fair Grounds in his first start. He began his 3-year-old campaign with a win in the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes in his second start, putting himself on the Derby trail. Never off the board in his career, the Cherie DeVaux trainee powered home to win a thrilling edition of the Kentucky Derby, cementing his place as a top 3-year-old in 2026 and giving DeVaux a historic victory as the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby.  Golden Tempo’s earnings currently stand at $3,433,000.

 

“Golden Tempo is the direct result of our family’s generations of foundational breeding,” said co-breeder Daisy Phipps Pulito. “Partnering with St. Elias Stables culminated in a historic Kentucky Derby win, and that is gratifying on so many levels.”

 

Golden Tempo is by perennial leading sire Curlin, the sire of 26 Grade 1 winners, including four other classic winners. Curlin has sired six individual Eclipse champions and six Breeders’ Cup winners who have accumulated a total of eight Breeders’ Cup wins.

 

“We’d like to thank St. Elias Stable and Phipps Stable for entrusting Lane’s End with Golden Tempo’s stud career,” said Lane’s End’s Bill Farish. “Golden Tempo fits the classic profile that Lane’s End has long been associated with, and his pedigree has such a deep foundation of Grade 1 winners and producers, in addition to being by a top sire.”

 

Golden Tempo’s Grade 1-placed, graded-stakes-winning dam Carrumba is a fifth-generation homebred for the Phippses, tracing back to their foundation mare Blitely, and is by leading broodmare sire Bernardini.  Golden Tempo’s deep pedigree contains seven other Grade 1 winners through four generations, including multiple Grade 1 winning champion 3-year-old Heavenly Prize along with Grade 1 winners Dancing Forever, Dancing Spree, Good Reward, Oh What a Windfall, Fantastic Find and Furlough.