# Golden Choice

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{{Short description|Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Golden Choice
| image = Golden Choice.jpg
| caption =  1988 book by Dick Sanderson
| sire = [Val de l'Orne](/source/Val_de_l'Orne)
| grandsire = [Val de Loir](/source/Val_de_Loir)
| dam = Your My Choice
| damsire =  Barachois
| sex = [Stallion](/source/Stallion_(horse))
| foaled = 1983
| country = [Canada](/source/Canada)
| colour = [Bay](/source/Bay_(color))
| breeder = [Windfields Farm](/source/Windfields_Farm)
| owner = [Dick Sanderson](/source/Dick_Sanderson) & [Gerry Belanger](/source/Gerry_Belanger)
| trainer = [Michael A. Tammaro](/source/Michael_A._Tammaro)
| record = 21: 6-3-4
| earnings =  $504,674
| race =  [Queen's Plate](/source/Queen's_Plate) (1986)<br>[Prince of Wales Stakes](/source/Prince_of_Wales_Stakes) (1986)<br>[Niagara Stakes](/source/Northern_Dancer_Breeders'_Cup_Turf) (1986)
| awards= [Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt](/source/Sovereign_Award_for_Champion_3-Year-Old_Male_Horse) (1986)
| honours =  
| updated= November 1, 2007
}}
'''Golden Choice''' (foaled 1983) is a Canadian [Thoroughbred](/source/Thoroughbred) [racehorse](/source/horse_racing) best known for winning Canada's most prestigious horse race, the [Queen's Plate](/source/Queen's_Plate). Sired by [Val de l'Orne](/source/Val_de_l'Orne), the 1975 [Prix du Jockey Club](/source/Prix_du_Jockey_Club) winner, his damsire was Barachois, a son of [Northern Dancer](/source/Northern_Dancer). Golden Choice was purchased as a yearling for $60,000 at the [Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society](/source/Canadian_Thoroughbred_Horse_Society) (CTHS) sale at [Woodbine](/source/Woodbine_Racetrack).

Racing as a three-year-old, he finished third in the 1986  [Plate Trial Stakes](/source/Plate_Trial_Stakes) and then won the first two legs of the [Canadian Triple Crown](/source/Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing). The [Queen's Plate](/source/Queen's_Plate) was the first ever win for Golden Choice, who then defeated the great [filly](/source/filly) [Carotene](/source/Carotene_(horse)) to capture the [Prince of Wales Stakes](/source/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](/source/Northern_Dancer_Breeders'_Cup_Turf). His performances that year earned him the [Sovereign Award for Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse](/source/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](/source/American_Broadcasting_Company) sportscaster [Jim McKay](/source/Jim_McKay) said of the book: "There are more good stories in horse racing than in any other sport. This is one of them."

==References==
* Sanderson, Dick ''[The Choice was GOLDEN : The True Story of a Racehorse](/source/The_Choice_was_GOLDEN_%3A_The_True_Story_of_a_Racehorse)'' (1988) [Caxton Hall Publishers](/source/Caxton_Hall_Publishers) {{ISBN|0-9692947-0-0}}
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/golden+choice Golden Choice's pedigree and partial racing stats]

Category:1983 racehorse births
Category:Racehorses bred in Ontario
Category:Racehorses trained in Canada
Category:King's Plate winners
Category:Sovereign Award winners
Category:Thoroughbred family 4-r

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