Gold Joy's Late Run Spells Tremont Surprise
Date Posted: 6/26/2004 8:19:27 PM
Last Updated: 6/26/2004 8:28:27 PM

Winning Expression passed favorite Primal Storm in midstretch, but longshot Gold Joy flew down the outside of the lane to
pass them both, winning the $104,900 Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park Saturday.
Gold Joy, under Michael Luzzi, was 14-1 in the field of four juveniles. He paid $31.40 to win the 5½-furlong race in 1:04 4/5
over a muddy track.

"He winds up and he runs," Luzzi said.

"We figured on a speed duel," said winning trainer Tim Salzman. "He was up there close and I kept telling (owner) Kenny
(Taylor) that he was close enough to be alright because he's got that kick through the lane. The farther he goes, the better
he's going to be."

Primal Storm, a two-time winner, beat both Winning Expression (second) and Gold Joy (third) in the Flash Stakes at
Belmont on June 4. June the Tiger, an impressive maiden winner, joined the fray for the Tremont.

Shane Sellers, the rider for 0.65-1 favorite Primal Storm, was confident given the results of the Flash Stakes. "I thought
June the Tiger was the horse to beat on paper," Sellers said. "I destroyed the other two horses before (in the Flash)."

At the top of the stretch in the Tremont, Sellers had Primal Storm in front. Winning Expression and Edgar Prado were on
the outside and June the Tiger and John Velazquez were tiring a length back at the rail. Winning Expression took the lead
midway through the stretch and looked to be the winner.

Then Gold Joy, who had dropped six lengths behind the leaders, started his late run. He won by 1 1/2 lengths.

Gold Joy – a New York-bred chestnut juvenile colt by Joyeux Danseur out of Lizzie Worthington (Gold Seam) – earned
$62,940 for owners Kenneth Taylor and John Salzman Jr. He is now 2-1-1 from four starts with earnings of $106,433.

Winning Expression was second. Primal Storm was third.

Salzman said that he would point Gold Joy to the $150,000 Sanford (gr. II) at 6 furlongs on July 29.
















This colt is the first winner produced from multiple stakes winner Tricky Move, a Tricky Creek (by Clever Trick) mare that
Lakland Farm purchased for $13,000 at Keeneland's 2000 November sale when she was carrying Multiplication. See
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(6/26) Gold Joy takes open Tremont as NY-breds run 1-2 VIEW VIDEO
Belmont's historic Tremont Stakes on Saturday for two-year-olds, which in previous renewals has been won by such
luminaries as Man o' War, Buckpasser, and Alydar, was billed beforehand as a "two-horse race", which is just what it
became -- a contest between New York-breds GOLD JOY and Winning Expression. The odds-on (.65-to-1) choice among
the four starters in the $99,900 event at 5 1/2 furlongs was unbeaten (two-for-two) Primal Storm, who in Belmont's Grade 3
Flash 22 days earlier had won by seven lengths over Winning Expression and by 10 3/4 over Gold Joy (New York-breds
ran two-three). Primal Storm also had crowded his competition before drawing off in that five-furlong contest, and for the
Tremont he again was out in front early, but Western Expression was only a half-length back, pushing the pace-setter
through fractions of 22.47 and 45.71 over the muddy track. Gold Joy, under jockey Michael Luzzi for the fourth time in four
starts, trailed the early third-place runner, 1.65-to-1 second choice June the Tiger, by 4 1/2 lengths after three furlongs,
but Winning Expression overtook Primal Storm and set a 58.35 five-eighths fraction despite staying on his left lead. Gold
Joy appeared to be unintimidated by the big margin his rivals held coming out of the turn, as Luzzi sent the chestnut colt
wide to blow by his competition in the stretch, catching Winning Expression inside the final furlong and winning by a length
and a half in 1:04.89. Winning Expression placed three lengths ahead of Primal Storm, who finished seven lengths in front
of June the Tiger.
Gold Joy races for Kenneth Taylor in partnership with John Salzman Sr., who had purchased the colt as a yearling for only
$6,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2003 September yearling sale in Timonium, Maryland. The New York-bred's trainer is
Timothy Salzman, who after the third-place Flash finish had given him a half-mile "bullet" workout of 48 4/5 at Timonium on
June 19. Gold Joy's first stakes victory boosted his purse earnings by $62,940 into six figures at $106,433 while improving
his record to 2 - 1 - 1 in four starts, and it also qualified owners Taylor and Salzman for an additional $6,294 open race
owner award.
"We figured on a speed duel," revealed winning trainer Salzman. "He (Gold Joy) was up there close, and I kept telling
Kenny (Taylor) that he was close enough to be alright because he's got that kick through the lane. The farther he goes,
the better he's going to be. We're going to have six stalls at Saratoga, so we plan on running in the Sanford (Grade 2,
$150,000 guaranteed, at six furlongs, Thursday, July 29)."
Winning jockey Luzzi confirmed trainer Salzman's observations: "He ran good last time (in the Flash) -- he ran by the
winner galloping out. Today, he broke almost too good, and I almost had to take him back. He winds up and he runs."
Jockey Shane Sellers on favored Primal Storm revealed he had sensed defeat when he could not shake off the first New
York-bred challenger, Winning Expression, under Edgar Prado: "I pretty much knew I was beat on the turn when Edgar put
the pressure on and we couldn't get away."
Bred by Chasemedaly Farm, which qualified for a $6,294 breeder award, Gold Joy is by middle distance turf specialist
Joyeux Danseur, a Grade 1-winning son of Nureyev who did not win until he was a four-year-old and did not win a stakes
until he was five. The colt is the third New York-bred winner produced from New York-bred Lizzie Worthington, a juvenile-
winning daughter of Gold Seam (by Mr. Prospector) out of New York-bred Warfie ($418,490). Warfie as a three-year-old in
1989 had set a track record while beating older fillies and mares in Belmont's Grade 2 Long Island Handicap. Chasemedaly
Farm/Stable, of which the managing partner, Karen Millard, is the assistant farm manager at John Hettinger's Akindale
Farm in Pawling, consigned Gold Joy to the Midlantic sale, where co-owner Salzman had purchased him. With a dosage
profile of 8-1-16-1-6, Gold Joy has a pedigree that hints he can run all day.
Also qualifying for a total of $9,906.66 in open race owner ($4,215.60), breeder ($4,215.60), and stallion ($1,475.46)
awards -- in addition to $21,078 in purse money -- was Winning Expression's owner-breeder, the Flying Zee Stable of Carl
Lizza Jr. of Wharton, New Jersey. Lizza owns Highcliff Farm in Delanson in partnership with Joseph Bartone, which is where
Flying Zee Stable stands Winning Expression's sire, Western Expression (Gone West - Tricky Game, by Majestic Light).
The total amount that Gold Joy and Winning Expression qualified for in owner, breeder, and stallion awards as a result of
their one-two finish in the Tremont was $22,494.66.
Gold Joy is the 16th New York-bred winner of an open (to horses bred anywhere) stakes in 2004, with a total of 17 open
stakes this year having been captured by runners bred in the Empire State. Through the first six months of 2003, 13 New
York-breds had won 14 open stakes events.