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First Foal Is A Colt For Kentucky Derby Winner Country House

Darby Dan Farm's Country House, winner of the 2019 Kentucky Derby, was represented by his first foal when a colt out of the City Zip mare American Values was born on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at Scarteen Stud.

Bred by Mrs. J.V. Shields, the colt hails from the family of graded stakes winner Love's Exchange and his dam, American Values, is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes-placed Wacky for Love and stakes-placed Missgallopinggulch.

Bred by the late Joseph V. Shields, Country House earned more than $2.1 million in his racing career and was campaigned by Shields' widow, Maury, his nephew Guinness McFadden of Blackwood Stables, and LNJ Foxwoods, and was trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott.

Country House made his 3-year-old debut a winning one, breaking his maiden at Gulfstream Park. He then finished a fast-closing second to eventual classic winner War of Will in the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds. In his final prep before the 145th Kentucky Derby, Country House finished a determined third behind Omaha Beach and Improbable in the G1 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park.

Country House is by multiple champion and classic winner Lookin At Lucky, a son of two-time champion sire and sire of sires Smart Strike. Country House is produced from the winning War Chant mare Quake Lake, a half-sister to Graded stakes winner and multiple Graded stakes-placed Breaking Lucky, and is a half-brother to Graded stakes winner Mitchell Road, an earner of $619,893.

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Graded-Placed Eastwood Moves To Walmac Farm For 2022

Louise and Kiki Courtelis' Town and Country Farms has relocated Eastwood, a graded stakes-placed son of sire of sires Speightstown, from Diamond B Farm in Pennsylvania to Gary Broad's Walmac Farm where he will stand alongside the operation's flagship stallion Core Beliefs for the upcoming breeding season.

Eastwood, who will stand for $2,500 S&N, was represented in 2021 by well-received first yearlings, including a $45,000 colt at last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale at Timonium. His first 2-year-olds will hit the track this year.

By perennial leading sire, Eclipse champion, and Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Speightstown, Eastwood posted head-turning victories in his first two career starts at Belmont Park, defeating a pair of eventual graded stakes winners in Lochte and Golden Lad in his debut. Eastwood was subsequently bought following those impressive wins for $800,000 out of the Baccari Bloodstock consignment at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Summer Horses of Racing Age Sale by Town and Country Farms.

A strapping chestnut bred in Kentucky by Fred Hertrich III, Eastwood is the first foal out of the Deputy Minister mare Fifth Avenue Ball. He originally sold at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale in 2010 where Baccari Bloodstock bought him from Taylor Made Sales, agent, for $240,000, marking the highest price paid for a Speightstown weanling in his crop. Speightstown, a top-five general sire of 2021, is one of only a few active sires to win a Breeders' Cup race and sire multiple Breeders' Cup winners.

Runner-up in the 2017 Grade 3 Los Angeles Stakes at Santa Anita at age seven, the speedy and sound Eastwood hit the board in eight of 12 lifetime starts, earning Equibase Speed Figures of 110, 109, 105, etc., with career earnings of $265,545.

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Foal Patrol Presented By National Museum Of Racing And Hall Of Fame: Choosing Vekoma For Floripa

Foal Patrol, an initiative of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, 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 management over the course of the season.

In this episode spotlighting Floripa at Old Tavern Farm in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Old Tavern's Greg Daley answers the question, “Why did you choose Vekoma for Floripa's mating?”

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

Since Season 1 in 2018, millions have engaged with Foal Patrol's 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 lineup at www.foalpatrol.com and watch our “Recent Updates” for Foal Patrol announcements and posts about featured mares and foals throughout the season.

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. In partnership with industry collaborators, we will add content to the new Foal Patrol Education Site for viewers of all ages from January through June 2022 at www.foalpatrol.com/education. Check in often to connect and learn.

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Foal Patrol Presented By National Museum Of Racing And Hall Of Fame: The Final Countdown For Spanish Bunny

In this episode with Spanish Bunny at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Paulick Report staff ask Gainesway's Lakota Gibson, “When do you start watching closely for signs of foaling?”

Since Season 1 in 2018, millions have engaged with Foal Patrol's 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 mares at www.foalpatrol.com and watch our “Recent Updates” for Foal Patrol announcements and posts about featured mares and foals throughout the season.

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. Content for Foal Patrol viewers of all ages will be added to the new Education Site regularly, from now through June 2022, at www.foalpatrol.com/education

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