5th-Horseshoe Indianapolis, $32,000, Msw, 8-25, 3yo/up, 1mT, 1:36.31, gd, 8 3/4 lengths.
GLOBAL ASSET (c, 3, Street Sense–Mexican Gold {GSW & G1SP-Fr, GSP-USA, $234,810}, by Medaglia d'Oro) closed from well back on debut June 14 over this course, and came in second over two next-out winners. Made the 3-5 favorite for this jump, he stumbled badly out of the gate but managed to recover to track from midpack as the pacesetter put up an opening quarter in :23.29 and four furlongs in :47.85. Moved from his ground-saving trip to the four path nearing the quarter pole, Global Asset produced an eye-catching rally to sweep to the front and draw off to win by 8 3/4 lengths. Hurricane Express (Fr) (More Than Ready) was a well-beaten second.
Out of a French group winning and Group 1-placed mare, the victor is the most recent winner for Mexican Gold. The broodmare, herself a half-sister to Group 1 winner Announce (GB) (Selkirk)–mother of SP-Fr Maquette (Tapit), has a pair of fillies to her credit–a yearling Tapit and 2025 Flightline. She went back to the latter stallion for 2026. Another of Mexican Gold's half-sisters is MGSP-Fr Straight Thinking (Mizzen Mast), herself the dam of SW & GSP-Ire Straight Answer (GB) (Kodiac {GB}), as well as Pachinko (Tapit), who claims GSW Final Gambit (Not This Time). This is the immediate female family of European champion juvenile colt Zafonic (Gone West), a one-time leading broodmare sire in the Czech Republic, and his full-brother GSW & MG1SP-Fr Zamindar, who at one time was a leading sire in the Czech Republic and France. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $25,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart.
O/B-Juddmonte (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.
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