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BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:40 pm not racing/TB related but QH breeder Katie Van Slyke reported that one of her mares just foaled 286 days into the pregnancy. the foal is standing, feeding and INTERACTING. all tests came back good. doesn't mean the foal will make it longterm, but just being born alive and then being seemingly well is already a huge miracle.

wow. So the foal was born at only 9 1/2 months? Is that unprecedented, at least for the foal to survive?

There is no joy quite like the safe delivery of a precious foal, particularly one who is a full brother to the horse judged best in the world.

Just before 1 a.m. on a blustery, chilly and ultimately snowy #FoalFriday, Jane Lyon's fabulous broodmare #Feathered (Indian Charlie) produced a dashing, white-splashed brother to #Flightline, America's Horse of the Year and the World's Best Racehorse of 2022. Sired by the redoubtable #Tapit of Gainesway Farm, the colt has all the character and looks one would expect from such racing royalty. He is approximately 12 hours old in these photos.

Being the Alpha Boss Mare that she is, Feathered arose almost immediately after producing the newborn and proceeded to shower him with attention, bathing his head, neck and back with motherly kisses. Despite the fact that she is generally the powerhouse ruler of the roost in the fields, she is so softly gentle with her new baby, caressing him with touches like velvet.

During daylight hours, before the sleet and snow began to fall from sullenly gray skies, Feathered and her new son spent time together in a paddock, where he tested his legs in bounces and romps under her ever-vigilant eyes.

This is how his story begins.

Everyone at Summer Wind has dreamed of his birth for nearly a year and now we will dream of his future. Yet at this miraculous moment, knowing he is not only safely on earth but also dazzling in looks and possibilities, time seems to have paused just so we can breathe in all that he is as nature's perfect creation.

Northport wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:16 pm Feathered has produced a full brother to Flightline. Full (long winded) post from Summer Wind’s Facebook

There is no joy quite like the safe delivery of a precious foal, particularly one who is a full brother to the horse judged best in the world.

Just before 1 a.m. on a blustery, chilly and ultimately snowy #FoalFriday, Jane Lyon's fabulous broodmare #Feathered (Indian Charlie) produced a dashing, white-splashed brother to #Flightline, America's Horse of the Year and the World's Best Racehorse of 2022. Sired by the redoubtable #Tapit of Gainesway Farm, the colt has all the character and looks one would expect from such racing royalty. He is approximately 12 hours old in these photos.

Being the Alpha Boss Mare that she is, Feathered arose almost immediately after producing the newborn and proceeded to shower him with attention, bathing his head, neck and back with motherly kisses. Despite the fact that she is generally the powerhouse ruler of the roost in the fields, she is so softly gentle with her new baby, caressing him with touches like velvet.

During daylight hours, before the sleet and snow began to fall from sullenly gray skies, Feathered and her new son spent time together in a paddock, where he tested his legs in bounces and romps under her ever-vigilant eyes.

This is how his story begins.

Everyone at Summer Wind has dreamed of his birth for nearly a year and now we will dream of his future. Yet at this miraculous moment, knowing he is not only safely on earth but also dazzling in looks and possibilities, time seems to have paused just so we can breathe in all that he is as nature's perfect creation.

Love a farm that posts social media updates, but gosh golly it is sometimes hard to work through the prose to find the details in their posts. Maybe they have a minimum word count they have to hit.

Akitaperson wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:21 pm I wonder when Songbird will grace the world with her foal

Akitaperson wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:21 pm I wonder when Songbird will grace the world with her foal

brunanas wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:19 pm A Dubawi Filly for Arc Heroine Alpinista
https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/a ... alpinista/

flytpthestars wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:25 pm Verry Elleegant passed after foaling. No word if her foal survived

flytpthestars wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:25 pm Verry Elleegant passed after foaling. No word if her foal survived

Squeaky wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:08 pm Very very sad. Who was she bred to?

stelladaniella wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:28 am c. Curlin - Love The Chase, half to California Chrome

https://x.com/tomryanky/status/17596275 ... dsxu8Uujjw