page_title: Goldencents
section_title: 2013: three-year-old season
hierarchical_section_title: Goldencents / Racing career / 2013: three-year-old season
caption_attribution_description: English: Goldencents at the 2013 Preakness
context_page_description: Goldencents is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning consecutive runnings of the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. As a two-year-old he ran three times, winning the Delta Jackpot Stakes and finishing second in the Champagne Stakes. In the following year he won the Sham Stakes and the Santa Anita Derby before finishing unplaced in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. He was brought back to sprint distances and ran well without winning before taking the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. As a four-year-old he won the Pat O'Brien Stakes and finished second three times before winning his second Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile.
context_section_description: Goldencents won three of his ten races as a three-year-old in 2013. He began the year with three races at Santa Anita Park. In the  Grade III Sham Stakes  on January 5 he started 2/5 favorite and won by one and a half lengths from Den's Legacy. O'Neill described the winner as "a brilliant athlete and so amazing mentally. He's just getting better every day". After finishing fourth in the San Felipe Stakes in March he started at odds of 13/2 for the Grade I Santa Anita Derby on April 6. After tracking the leader Super Ninety Nine for most of the race he took the lead in the straight and won by one and a quarter lengths from the favored Flashback. Krigger, who was recording his first Grade I success said I've started making history with this horse. This is just the start. As long as I can get him to relax, his potential is untapped."
  In the Kentucky Derby on May 4 at Churchill Downs the colt started 7.9/1 third choice in the betting, but after racing prominently in the early stages he faded badly and finished seventeenth of the nineteen runners behind Orb. Two weeks later he finished fifth behind Oxbow in the Preakness Stakes.
  Goldencents was brought back in distance for the Grade I Bing Crosby Stakes over six furlongs at Del Mar in July and was beaten a head by the four-year-old sprinter Points Offthebench. Pat Valenzuela took over from Krigger when the colt started odds on favorite for the Grade II Pat O'Brien Stakes over seven furlongs at the same venue a month later. After taking a clear lead in the straight, he was overtaken in the final strides and beaten a length by Fed Biz. Golden Cents met Points Offthebench again in the Santa Anita Sprint Championship on October 6. He was favored in the betting but again had to give best to the older horse, who won by a length.
  On November 1 at Santa Anita, Goldencents started at odds of 5/1 for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile in which he was opposed by Verrazano and the 2012 Travers Stakes dead-heaters Alpha and Golden Ticket. Ridden by the Rafael Bejarano, he led from the start, set a very fast pace and won by almost three lengths from Golden Ticket. When asked about his aggressive, front-running tactics, Bejarano said "it was one of my options to send him right away from the gate. Everything was great. I had a good trip and I had a little pressure in the first turn but it wasn't that bad." Goldencents started favorite for the Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack four weeks later, but was bumped at the start and failed to reproduce his best form, finishing seventh of the ten runners behind Flat Out.
caption: Goldencents at the 2013 Preakness Stakes
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