Goliad

Goliad, a 7-year-old War Front gelding, tallied his first career stakes victory in start no. 16 when he won the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes by three lengths in gate-to-wire fashion Feb. 3, 2024, on turf at Santa Anita Park. He entered the Thunder Road off of a similar frontrunning win in an allowance optional claiming race Jan. 7 at Santa Anita.

Goliad made the biggest splash of his career at the brief Kentucky Downs race meet in the late summer of 2024, when he won two rich races within the span of a week. First, Goliad won a $500,000 handicap race going one mile at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 1. He then came back less than a week later to win again, this time in the $1.8 million Grade 3 Mint Millions Stakes, also going one mile on the Kentucky Downs turf course. In the Mint Millions, Goliad went right to the lead to establish control ahead of the nine-horse field and then went all the way for a wire-to-wire one-length victory. Goliad's winner's share of the Mint Millions purse equalled $1,195,200.

The Richard Mandella trainee is out of the winning Dynaformer mare Choreograph, who has produced two other stakes winners.