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Sep 14, 2026
Bruce SladeHOST
And considering he's taking on the likes of Flightline, it must be said that Flightline and Life is Good, they were the two horses that always took each other on race day.
Bruce SladeHOST
Advantage flight line on the racetrack and at the moment advantage life is good in this day and by now life is good still doing a very good job he is a big scopey horse he is a horse that is a proper two turn horse so you do expect them to get even better next year at three so certainly not um can't be written off and certainly doing a nice enough job um also has um mistakes where a really nice stakes were in japan there a couple weekends ago too so um flight line doing a great job obviously came off came to stud with the biggest profile, standing 125 US first season, versus Life is Good, who stood at 60,000 US first season, and that went down to obviously Golden Pal at 25,000 US.
Bruce SladeHOST
But the other horse up there to mention too is early voting.
Bruce SladeHOST
He didn't have the same big...
Jess StaffordHOST
He's a Group One winner.
Jess StaffordHOST
The future is very, very bright, but I suppose it's not lost on you that he's already achieved more than what Golden Pal, um, achieved over in the UK, which must feel quite overwhelming when you think about the short space of time it's happened in, and Golden Pal being already now turning into a pretty useful stallion as well as one of Wesley Ward's best ever horses.
Caitlin WardGUEST
It's, it's crazy.
Caitlin WardGUEST
I actually, I was out at the farm today, and I was speaking to someone who's super close to our program, and they said, "Oh my gosh, can you believe it? Like, he's gonna be the favorite for the Breeders' Cup." And I was like, "I can't start-
Jess StaffordHOST
Ooh
Caitlin WardGUEST
... thinking about that just yet," you know? Um, because...
Caitlin WardGUEST
And I said, I was like, I just, I don't think any of us ever thought that he would be in that same conversation as Golden Pal, right? I mean, Golden Pal was such a freak.
Caitlin WardGUEST
And-
Jerry DuffyGUEST
And Sunday, when the good life won the hopeful, it's just that validation that he has a huge future.
Zoe CadmanHOST
Well, Jerry, he leads pretty much every category, bar number of wins, which Golden Pal is leading right now.
Zoe CadmanHOST
But having seen him train as a two-year-old and having him out in Southern California with Hall of Famer Bob Baffert and then watching him go on and do what he did with Todd, You know, it didn't seem a big surprise to anyone that there was such expectations of him to be a stallion.
Zoe CadmanHOST
But usually that happens and it just doesn't pan out.
David AragonaHOST
Still, let's go back to her debut race, Akiva, because that was a good one.
David AragonaHOST
And actually, she faced off against her fellow international shipper Shining Moment this day as more champagne got the better of that other daughter of Golden Pal.
David AragonaHOST
This filly didn't take a whole lot of money on debut going off at six to one in this five horse field, but she sure ran pretty well.
David AragonaHOST
And if she can get back to this kind of effort, she's a major player here.