Girolamo gets ‘Lucky’ first winner

Girolamo earned his biggest win in the 2010 Vosburgh (NYRA/Adam Coglianese Photography) Grade 1 hero Girolamo (A.P. Indy) was represented by his first winner as a sire when Alan Brodsky’s Lucky Lurie just got up to record a neck victory in the 4TH race at Belmont Park on Thursday. Trained by Mark Hennig and ridden by Rajiv Maragh, the bay colt was making his first start and dueled with pacesetter Love That Jazz (Not for Love) through splits of :22 3/5 and :46. The duo continued battling to the wire, with Lucky Lurie just inching away in the shadow of the wire to get his neck in front to post a final time of :58 2/5 for five furlongs on the fast main track. Lucky Lurie paid $4.70 for taking his career bow as the 6-5 favorite, emulating Girolamo who took his maiden debut as the even-money choice. The dark bay runner got that first score at Saratoga, but was unable to carry that form with him when transferring to Belmont for a fourth-placing in the Futurity S. (G2) and sixth-place run in the Champagne S. (G1) to close out his juvenile campaign.

Girolamo returned late in his three-year-old season and went 4-3-0-0,
including a win in the Jerome H. (G2), prior to an unplaced effort in the
Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). The Godolphin colorbearer, who was trained by Kiaran
McLaughlin as a two-year-old before switching to Saeed bin Suroor’s barn, ran
fifth in his four-year-old debut in the Forego S. (G1) ahead of earning his
biggest triumph in the Vosburgh S. (G1). Two races later the Kentucky-bred
closed out his career with a half-length third in the Cigar Mile H. (G1).

Girolamo headed to the breeding shed sporting an 11-5-0-1, $443,800, career
record. He is out of Grade 2-placed stakes winner Get Lucky (Mr. Prospector),
making him a full brother to Grade 2 queen Daydreaming as well as the dams of
2010 Kentucky Derby (G1) hero Super Saver (Maria’s Mon) and Grade 1-winning
millionaire Bluegrass Cat (Storm Cat). Daydreaming is herself the dam of Grade
1-scoring millionaire Imagining (Giant’s Causeway).

Girolamo’s second dam is Grade 1 vixen Dance Number (Northern Dancer), who
would go on in the breeding shed to produce champion Rhythm, a full brother to
Get Lucky. His third dam is champion and blue-hen mare Numbered Account (Buckpasser),
and this stellar female family also includes dual Grade 1 victor and leading
sire Private Account (Damascus) as well as Group 2-placed listed winner and sire
Mutakddim (Seeking the Gold)

Originally sent to stud at Sequel Stallions in New York, Girolamo was
transferred to Darley’s Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, for the 2014
season. He stands there now for a fee of $5,000, stands and nurses.

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