Java Gold

{{Short description|American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

{{Infobox racehorse

| horsename = Java Gold

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| sire = Key To The Mint

| grandsire = Graustark

| dam = Javamine

| damsire = Nijinsky

| sex = Stallion

| foaled = 1984

| country = United States

| colour = Bay

| breeder = Paul Mellon

| owner = Rokeby Stables

| trainer = MacKenzie Miller

| record = 15: 9-3-1

| earnings = US$1,908,832.

| race = Remsen Stakes (1986)
Best Turn Stakes (1987)
Travers Stakes (1987)
Marlboro Cup Invitational (1987)
Whitney Handicap (1987)

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| updated= May 14, 2010

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Java Gold (1984–2009) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won three 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[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102060102/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/92717937.html?dids=92717937:92717937&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+23,+1986&author=News%2FSun-Sentinel+wire+services&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=JAVA+GOLD+TRIUMPHS+IN+REMSEN+STAKES&pqatl=google South Florida Sun Sentinel - November 23, 1986] at age two with Jerry Bailey aboard, then won the Grade 1 Travers Stakes,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/23/sports/horse-racing-java-gold-s-late-run-captures-travers.html|title=Java Gold's Late Run Captures Travers|last=Crist|first=Steven|date=August 23, 1987|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-08-07|language=en}} Marlboro Cup Invitational[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DCAfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bqcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1106,2800579&dq=marlboro+cup+java+gold&hl=en Anchorage Daily News - September 21, 1987] and Whitney Handicaps in 1987.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1M4RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=COoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5648,2568020&dq=java+gold+whitney&hl=en Gainesville Sun - August 9, 1987] With Pat Day aboard, his final career race was a second-place finish behind Creme Fraiche in the Jockey Club Gold Cup after trying to come from behind in which a very slow pace was being set by the front-runners. 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.