ADDING SHINE TO OUR POT OF GOLD...

Golden Shine
Touch Gold / Mop Squeezer, by Roanoke

• Winner by 7-1/2 lengths over stakes horses Lucky Bid and big Top Cat
• A unanimous choice of the Derby Watch Committee
• Inured in the G2 San Felipe but still hung on for 5th behind Consolidator, Giacomo, Don't Get Mad and Wilco.

Updates

12.7.2007 - TOUCH of Class TOUCH GOLD has sired earners of more than $5,000,000 for the second consecutive year. Through December 6, he had 11 stakes horses, 96 winners, 11 two-year-old winners. TOUCH GOLD sired two impressive two-year-old winners at Churchill Downs November 9th. $480,000 yearling SPRITELY won her second race in two starts, with a front-running effort at seven furlongs. She is owned by Edward P. Evans and trained by Todd Pletcher. Debut starter KEEP THE PEACE shot to the front and never looked back, breaking her maiden by 4 1/2 with six furlongs in 1:10 1/5. She is owned by Gary and Mary West. A week earlier, TOUCH GOLD's SUGAR SWIRL won her third stakes race, taking the $110,900 Very Subtle S. by three lengths at Churchill Downs in 1:09 4/5.

Earlier this year, three-year-old SHARP SUSAN powered to an easy victory in the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride S., becoming the 18th stakes winner for TOUCH GOLD. Favored at 9-5, the $340,000 former Keeneland yearling was first at every call, and posted a winning margin of three lengths. TOUCH GOLD continues to have exceptional success with his 2004 crop. He sired 17 juvenile winners, SIX stakes horses, and earners of more than $743,000 from this crop in 2006. He has added eight more winners in 2007, and boasts 25 winners, seven stakes horses, and over $1.4-million in earnings from his current crop of three-year-olds.

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Golden Shine
Standing at MESA VISTA STUD
Truman Smith, DVM
1600 S. Second St., Raton, NM 87740
Phone: (505) 445-3912 • FAX: (505) 445-2386

An Adena Springs homebred, SUGAR SWIRL has earnings of $471,124. On August 17, multiple Graded stakes winner SHARP SUSAN dominated the prestigious Lake Placid H.-G2 at Saratoga, with a front-running victory on August 17th.. She is trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott for owner IEH Stabe. The half sister to Grade I winner Sharp Lisa goes next in the Grade I Garden City S.-G1 at Belmont Sept. 8. 2-year-old VITTA'S TOUCH remained undefeated in two starts with a front-running victory over six furlongs in Milan, Italy on July 11th. The Adena Springs-bred out of Exact, by Twining, now races for Scuderia Vittadini. TOUCH GOLD sired two stakes fillies the last Saturday in June, when SHARP SUSAN finished second in the Grade 3 Boiling Springs H. and KATYS GOLD TOUCH was second in the Lone Star Oaks. SHARP SUSAN is already a 2007 Graded SW, but KATYS GOLD TOUCH is the 11th stakes horse this year for TOUCH GOLD. ROYAL CHALLENGER became Touch Gold's 10th stakes horse of 2007 with a strong second in the $100,000 Singspiel S. June 24th.

The Classic winner just missed catching Pellugrino at the wire in the $100,000 event. Two new 2007 stakes winners in two days boosted TOUCH GOLD's earnings past $2.3-million by June 16th. Belmont Park stakes winner SUGAR SWIRL posted a gritty victory in the 6 1/2-furlong Alyssum S. June 15, while SHESGOLDINCOLOR won her first added money event, the No Winking S. over 5 furlongs at Calder. These two are the fourth and fifth 2007 stakes winners for TOUCH GOLD. During May, TOUCH GOLD sired five stakes horses, including a Grade 3 two-year-old:Daughter TAKE A CHECK was stakes-placed at Pimlico May 26th; SUGAR SWIRL placed in the Yank's Music Stakes at Belmont May 23rd; Adena 2YO graduate ADA'S DREAM became the 34th career stakes horses for her sire when stakes-placed May 19th; 3-year-old FERRARI PISA became Touch Gold's 19th SWwith a 3-length win in the Hyogo Championship in Japan May 4th; and YOGI'SSPLASHOFGOLD, TOUCH GOLD's first 2yo starter of year, beat colts when 2nd in the $150,000 Kentucky Breeders' Cup-G3 at Churchill May 3rd. TOUCH GOLD fillies EYES ON EDDY and SUGAR SWIRL also ran 1-2 in a $58,000 Churchill allowance May 2nd.