Sire Key To The Mint Dam Javamine Foaled 1984 Species Equus caballus Trainer MacKenzie Miller Sex Stallion | Grandsire Graustark Damsire Nijinsky Country United States Owner Rokeby Stables Parents Key to the Mint Children Kona Gold, Boreal | |
Java Gold (1984–2009) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won Grade 1 races and sired two Champions.
Bred by Paul Mellon, and raced by his Rokeby Stables, Java Gold notably won the 1986 Remsen Stakes at age two and the Grades 1 Travers Stakes, Marlboro Cup Invitational and Whitney Handicaps. He retired from racing having won nine of his fifteen starts and with earnings of US$1,908,832.
A successful sire, Java Gold produced Kona Gold, winner of the 2000 Breeders' Cup Sprint and the Eclipse Award winner for American Champion Sprint Horse. Standing at Gestüt Ammerland in Germany, he also sired Access To Java, the 2000 German Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, and Boreal, who won the 2001 Group One Deutsches Derby in Germany and the 2002 Group One Coronation Cup in England.