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Foal Patrol Presented By National Museum Of Racing And Hall Of Fame: What Does The Nightwatch Staff Do?

Foal Patrol has partnered with the Paulick Report in Season 5 to bring you closer to featured mares and foals and to ask farm staff questions about their care and health.

In this episode with Spanish Bunny at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., Paulick Report staff ask Gainesway's Lakota Gibson, “What does the nightwatch staff do?”

For a chance to have one of your questions asked in an upcoming Paulick Report episode, email your question to foalpatrol@racingmuseum.net. Be sure to let us know if your question is for a specific Season 5 mare.

Foal Patrol, an initiative of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, is a one-of-a-kind collection of live web cameras that gives viewers rare insight into the life of mares during their pregnancies, including the actual birth and the first few weeks of their foal's life.

Since Season 1 in 2018, millions have watched the live webcam series for a behind-the-scenes look at what daily life is like for in-foal mares and foals. Learn more about this season's featured mares at www.foalpatrol.com.

Foal Patrol Season 5 education content begins with breeding and reproduction and covers various aspects of the life of a Thoroughbred horse, from foaling through retirement. New content for Foal Patrol viewers of all ages will be added to the Foal Patrol Education Site weekly, from January through June 2022, at www.foalpatrol.com/education.

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Halladay, Grade 1-Winning Son Of War Front, To Enter Stud At Harris Farms In California

Halladay, a Grade 1 winner by the top international sire War Front, has been retired from racing and will commence his stallion career in 2022 at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., as the property of a syndicate led by Adrian Gonzalez of Checkmate Thoroughbreds. He will be the only Grade 1 winning son of War Front to stand west of Kentucky and his only stakes-winning son in California.

Halladay's introductory fee is $7,500 live foal stands and nurse guarantee, with shares available.

Campaigned by Harrell Ventures and trained by Todd Pletcher, Halladay won six races including three stakes, earning $565,245. His greatest victory occurred in the 2020 Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap at Saratoga, where he defeated Grade 1 winners Uni (GB), Got Stormy, Raging Bull (FR), Casa Creed, Without Parole (GB) and Valid Point while leading gate to wire, stopping the clock for one mile on turf in 1:33 1/5. In his next race, Halladay set the pace in the G1 Breeder's Cup Mile until deep stretch and was beaten only 2 ½ lengths.

“Halladay was a very talented colt,” Todd Pletcher said. “He was precocious with elite cruising speed. He never had a bad day on the track and was a pleasure to train. He has the best qualities of his sire and broodmare sire and makes for an extremely exciting stallion prospect.”

“Halladay is a Grade 1 winner by War Front out of a graded stakes winning Tapit mare,” said Gonzalez. “War Front is North America's leading sire by percentage of stakes winners and Grade 1 winners to foals. Tapit has led the general sire list three times and has been a top five sire for nine of the last 10 seasons. He is a gorgeous, well-balanced horse standing 16.1 hands. It is a rare opportunity to launch a stallion with this genetic makeup that is a Grade 1 winner in California, and we we are thrilled to present him.”

War Front is the sire of eight champions, 23 Grade 1 winners and at least 100 stakes winners. He is the leading sire in North America by percentage of stakes winners, percentage of graded stakes winners and percentage of Grade 1 stakes winners from racing age foals through 2021. In North America, War Front is the sire of the stallion The Factor (G1), as well as soon to hit market top stallion prospects Omaha Beach (G1) and Classic winner War of Will (G1).

Halladay was bred in Kentucky by Gainesway Thoroughbreds and Winchell Thoroughbreds and is out of the Tapit mare Hightap, herself a multiple graded stakes winner including the Grade 3 Dogwood at Churchill Downs and the Grade 3 Iowa Oaks.

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2004 Cigar Mile Winner Lion Tamer Died In Jamaica in 2019

Lion Tamer, winner of the Grade 1 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct Racetrack in 2004, died in Jamaica at age 19 on September 3, 2019, due to a heart attack. The chestnut son of Will's Way had been standing stud at Orange Valley Estates in Trelawny, Jamaica since 2017 after standing for nine seasons at Clear Creek Stud in Louisiana.

“We loved him dearly. He was a kind and gentle stallion to work with and did his job with ease,” said Jacqui Henderson, manager of Orange Valley Estates. “He will always have a place in the hearts of all at Orange Valley.”

Trained by Todd Pletcher and owned by Michael Tabor, Lion Tamer was ridden by Jose Santos to be the upset 12-1 winner of the 2004 Cigar Mile by 1 1/4 lengths over multiple graded stakes-winner Badge of Silver in a final time of 1:33.46.

Lion Tamer earned three other graded victories in his career, taking a trio of Grade 2's with wins in the Hutcheson at Gulfstream Park as a sophomore and the Richter Scale Breeders' Cup Sprint at Gulfstream and Commonwealth Breeders' Cup at Keeneland as a 4-year-old.

Lion Tamer also added two other Grade 1 placings to his resume at 5, finishing third in the Vosburgh and the Breeders' Cup Sprint, both at Belmont Park. Lion Tamer wrapped up his career with earnings of $1,000,727 and a consistent record of 8-3-2 from 20 lifetime starts.

At the time of his retirement to stud, Lion Tamer was the only millionaire standing in Louisiana, attracting the attention of breeders and covering 34 mares in his first year at Clear Creek. From nine American crops, Lion Tamer's top progeny include multiple stakes winner Heavy on Themister, stakes winner Win Lion Win, and Grade 3-placed stakes winner Southern Dude.

In January of 2017, Lion Tamer was transferred to Orange Valley Estates where he stood for three seasons prior to his death. His Jamaican crops include 3-year-old filly Golden Wattle, who defeated males to win Jamaica's richest juvenile race, the Supreme Ventures Jamaica 2-Year-Old [JM $4 million], on December 27.

Lion Tamer bred 20 mares in his final year at stud, producing a handful of foals that are now 2-year-olds working towards their debuts.

Out of the stakes-placed Olympio mare Tippecanoe Creek, Lion Tamer was bred in Kentucky by Paul Smith.

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Global Campaign’s First Foal A Maryland-Bred Filly At Country Life Farm

WinStar Farm's Grade 1 winner Global Campaign sired his first foal when breeder Country Life Farm welcomed a precocious Maryland-bred filly out of the multiple stakes-placed Teuflesberg mare Miss Mystique on Friday night, Jan. 14. An earner of $258,283, Miss Mystique is a half-sister to stakes winner and multiple stakes-placed Brenda's Way and is produced from the winning Malibu Moon mare Malibu Mystique.

“We were excited to breed to him and we couldn't be happier with this filly,” said Christy Holden, general manager of Country Life Farm. “Being a Maryland-bred will give her lots of opportunities to earn bonuses when she runs, and she's already showing us that she'll be a star.”

Global Campaign is arguably the best-bred Grade 1 winner at stud by two-time Horse of the Year Curlin. Bred by WinStar Farm, Global Campaign demonstrated the coveted combination of speed and stamina during a racing career that saw him win from seven furlongs in his debut at three to an impressive front-running score in the historic Woodward H. (G1) at 1 ¼ miles at four, just like his esteemed sire.

The Woodward, in which he earned a 104 Beyer Speed Figure, was Global Campaign's second straight Graded victory following a win in the Monmouth Cup S. (G3) where he defeated seven stakes winners, including a Grade 1 winner, in his previous outing with a 101 Beyer. All told, Global Campaign, who also captured the Peter Pan S. (G3) at three and placed in the 2020 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) with a career-best 106 Beyer, won six of 10 starts and bankrolled $1,321,080 for partners Sagamore Farm and WinStar Farm and trainer Stanley Hough.

A complete outcross in his first four generations, Global Campaign is produced from the late A.P. Indy mare and spectacular producer Globe Trot, who is the dam of only three foals, two of whom are Grade 1 winners—the other being multiple Grade 1 winner Bolt d'Oro and the third is multiple stakes winner Sonic Mule, both half-brothers to Global Campaign.

A $250,000 Keeneland September yearling purchased by Sagamore Farm, Global Campaign was booked full in 2021, breeding 177 mares in his first season at stud. He will stand his second season at stud for $12,500 S&N. For more information about Global Campaign, contact Liam O'Rourke, Olivia Desch, or Gareth Wigley at 859-873-1717, or visit WinStarFarm.com.

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