Foal season is here! This is the first time Gotapa has had foals born on January 1st, so very happy these mares held on to the start of the year!
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
War Front x Best Choice - ICh. Candidate (G)
7.3h dark bay colt
Eighth foal for Best Choice and fifth foal born while we owned her (first foal being bred by another stable), making her one of the few mares who has been with Gotapa from the start. Most of her foals grow up to prefer dirt, but with an unknown sire thrown in the mix we’ll have to wait and see what he prefers when he grows up.
Best Choice will visit Never Let Go for 2031
SCYLLA
GCh. All That Appeal x Ch. Legendary - NCh. Black Warrior
8.2h chestnut filly
Happy to get a filly from Legendary to continue her line when the time comes! Scylla is half to two stakes winners, one of which just finished a stellar four-year-old season at Gotapa and is on the verge of earning millionaire status. She should be a turf specialist when she grows up.
ARCO IRIS
GCh. Vague Writer x Silver Drop - NCh. In The Navy
9.1h grey colt
Name means rainbow in Spanish and Portugese (though written slightly different) and is a nod to his granddam. He’s Silver Drop’s first foal and should take to fences when he grows up.
Silver Drop won’t be bred for 2031, but she’s available for lease if anyone is interested.
First stillborn of the year, but also two healthy arrivals.
LIGHTNING STRIKE
GCh. Mantle of Power (S) x Bolt Away - WCh. Usain Bolt
8.2h strawberry roan filly
Second foal for Bolt Away. She wasn’t a succes on the track herself, but her pedigree gives me hope that she’ll be a stellar broodmare. Only time will tell!
She’s on her way to Fivel for next year.
Stillborn colt
NCh. Palermo x Chase Me Home - Almost Home (S)
Bummer, I was looking forward to this foal with how Palermo foals are tearing up the track. This would have been Chase Me Home’s eighth consecutive colt. I did the math: it’s a 0,39% chance, haha. Will retry this breeding for 2031!
QUOTUM
NCh. Ducati (B) x Claimin’ It - California Chrome
9.1h black colt
First foal for Claimin’ It. Should take to dirt when he grows up.
FEHU
GCh. Northern Invasion x Twenty Four Carat - ICh. What’s Your Point
8h brown filly
Fehu is a rune that refers to wealth, so it seemed fitting with this cross! Dam prefers turf while her sire is a dirt runner, so hoping for a solid allrounder.
Twenty Four Carat is on her way to Phenomenal.
READY TO ROCK
GCh. Never Let Go x Ch. Vague Rock - Rock of Gibraltar (B)
Bred by Denoux Stud
7.3h dark bay colt
Slightly surprised the name was still free, but I’ll take it! Vague Rock has a date with All That Appeal for 2031.
This guy was more than three weeks overdue, happy he arrived safe and sound!
PANACHE
GCh. Tense Imagination x Flamboyant (B) - ICh. Gunningdownromance (S)
9.1h blood bay colt
Fourth foal for Flamboyant who’s other offspring is lightly raced, but showing promise. Flamboyant’s dam produced a very succesful horse in a cross with Crystal Rainbow so it was worth a shot trying to cross her with his son. We’ll see how he does in a couple of years!
Busy busy days in the foaling barn! There’s definitely something in the water because it’s colts extending their lead over fillies once again. Thankfully I can see two foals born today that are fillies, we need some balance haha.
MAYDAY MAYDAY
Nyquist x Enara Prime (B) - GCh. Secretsarebound (S)
9.2h black colt
RAMESSES THE GREAT
Frankel (S) x Sands of Egypt - GCh. Akhetnaten (S)
8.2h dark bay colt
SQUISH
Charismatic x Squeeze - ICh. Quarren
8.2h black colt
TOP OF THE WORLD
Jebel Musa x Star Treatment - ICh. Demand the Best
10h bay colt
