Chunk of Gold
Gray or Roan Colt / May 10th, 2022 in KY / by Preservationist out of Play for Gold
$868,893
2025 earnings
114
speed figure
22%
2025 wins
racing Record
2025 Stats
Career Stats
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2
Firsts
3
5
Seconds
5
1
Thirds
1
1
Unplaced
1
9
Starts
10
$868,893
Earnings
$893,311
$96,544
Earnings / Start
$89,331
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Bio
Chunk of Gold began his career as a 2-year-old with a maiden win at first asking in a six-furlong race on the all-weather surface at Turfway Park on Dec. 19, 2024. He then tried stakes company at Turfway Park when stretched out to a mile for his second start, which resulted in a second-place finish in the $125,000 Leonatus Stakes in his first start as a 3-year-old on Jan. 18, 2025.
Chunk of Gold began his career as a 2-year-old with a maiden win at first asking in a six-furlong race on the all-weather surface at Turfway Park on Dec. 19, 2024. He then tried stakes company at Turfway Park when stretched out to a mile for his second start, which resulted in a second-place finish in the $125,000 Leonatus Stakes in his first start as a 3-year-old on Jan. 18, 2025.
Chunk of Gold was sent to Fair Grounds for the third start of his career to try dirt for the first time in the Grade 2 $500,000 Fasig-Tipton Risen Star Stakes going 1 1/8 miles on Feb. 15. He was sent off at odds of 43.30-1 in a field of 12 but showed ability on the main track and closed well enough to finish a distant second. The Risen Star Stakes was a points race on the road to the Kentucky Derby, and with his runner-up finish, Chunk of Gold earned 25 qualifying points to stamp himself a legitimate contender to make it into the Kentucky Derby starting gate.
Chunk of Gold is trained by Ethan West. He was bred in Kentucky by the sire Preservationist out of the mare Play for Gold, by Cairo Prince. Stakes winner Band of Gold is Chunk of Gold's full-sibling (same dam [mother], same sire [father]).
