Swiss Skydiver, an Eclipse Award winner and the sixth filly to win the Preakness Stakes, has delivered her first foal, a filly by Kingman, at Northern Farm in Japan.
The birth was announced Monday by the farm's Twitter account.
Swiss Skydiver has traversed the globe since Northern Farm's Katsumi Yoshida purchased the daughter of Daredevil for $4.7 million at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. After the auction, she was sent to England, where she visited top European sire Kingman at Juddmonte Farms' Banstead Manor Stud. Swiss Skydiver was then sent to Japan to deliver the filly.
Swiss Skydiver raced for Peter Callahan and she was trained by Kenny McPeek during her on-track career, winning seven of 16 starts for earnings of $2,216,480.
Following a stakes-placed 2-year-old season, Swiss Skydiver established herself as an early player on the 2020 Kentucky Oaks trail with a win in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks. Then, as the trail was stretched out, she continued to boost her stock with wins in the G3 Fantasy Stakes and G2 Santa Anita Oaks before testing male competition for the first time in the G2 Blue Grass Stakes, where she finished second.
Swiss Skydiver returned to facing her fellow fillies for a win in the G1 Alabama Stakes and a hard-fought second to Shedaresthedevil in the Kentucky Oaks, before outlasting eventual Horse of the Year Authentic in the Pimlico Race Course stretch to win the Preakness Stakes. She was the first filly to win the Preakness since Rachel Alexandra in 2009, and the effort helped Swiss Skydiver secure the Eclipse Award for champion 3-year-old female of 2020.
Her 4-year-old campaign was highlighted by a victory in the G1 Beholder Mile Stakes.
Kingman, a son of Invincible Spirit, was named Europe's Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male in 2014 off a campaign that included Group 1 victories in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, St. James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes, and Prix du Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard – Jacques Le Marois.
Kingman is the sire of more than 30 graded/group stakes winners, and he was the second-fastest Northern Hemisphere sire to achieve 50 stakes winners, behind only fellow Juddmonte sire Frankel. His most notable runners include St. James's Palace Stakes winner Palace Pier, French 2,000 Guineas winner Persian King, and multiple Grade 1 winner Domestic Spending.
2020年のエクリプス賞（米国）最優秀3歳牝馬に輝いたスイススカイダイバーが初仔を出産しました。お母さんによく似た女の子の父は2014年のカルティエ賞（欧州）年度代表馬のKingmanです。#ノーザンファームからのお便り #Kingman pic.twitter.com/kjE1YBsQqI
— ノーザンホースパーク (@northern_horse) April 17, 2023
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