Travel Column takes out Golden Rod at Churchill Downs
Darley shuttler Frosted (Tapit) sired his first northern hemisphere-bred stakes winner over the weekend when Travel Column (2 f ex Swingit by Victory Gallop) won the Golden Rod Stakes (Gr 2, 8.5f) at Churchill Downs.
Previously stakes placed at Grade 1 level, the Brad Cox-trained filly beat Clairiere (Curlin) by a length with Coach (Commissioner), who is also trained by Cox, back in third.
Bred in Kentucky by Mr and Mrs Bayne Welker Jr and Denali Stud, Travel Column is out of the three-time stakes winner Swingit (Victory Gallop) who is also the dam of three-time Grade 1-placed Neolithic (Harlan’s Holiday) and three other winners.
Travel Column, who has now won two of her three career starts and was placed in the Alcibiades Stakes (Gr 1, 8.5f), sold from the Denali Stud consignment at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale where realised US$850,000.
Frosted will stand the 2021 breeding season at Jonabell Farm in Kentucky for a fee of US$25,000. His northern hemisphere-bred crop includes the stakes placed pair Ten For Ten and Frost Me who are amongst the sires 13 winners whilst his first Australian-bred crop is headed by Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (Listed, 1000m) winner Ingratiating and stakes placed filly Cloudy, who ran third behind Ingratiating in the Listed race.
