"she had put on a little weight"

[ezrabrooks]

How does a trainer have a two (2) year filly in training, working her 36 and 3 on Sunday, and then arrive at her stall on Wednesday to discover she has a newborn standing next to her? I would have never believed this could happen.

[Nacumi]

Happened to a filly called Speak Compelling at Philadelphia Park a few years ago:
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/weekly-feature-articles/2003/December/20/Mileposts-Surprise-foal-Amazing-Philly-tries-again-to-get-racing-career-started.aspx

[ghostyapper]

How does a trainer have a two (2) year filly in training, working her 36 and 3 on Sunday, and then arrive at her stall on Wednesday to discover she has a newborn standing next to her? I would have never believed this could happen.

Is there a link for this story?

[DJofSD]

Wow! that's amazing if true.

My experience with prego mares especially when they drop makes it ny impossible to miss the condition.

Are you sure you are not referring to the secretary cum copy writer on "Mad Men" aired on AMC?

[ezrabrooks]

http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/columnists/gary_west/ (http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/columnists/gary_west/)

[DJofSD]

Thanks for the link.

It's still amazing -- the trainer didn't find her bagging up or any signs of the vaginal region loosing? (That's a rhetorical question).

[BillW]

http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/columnists/gary_west/ (http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/columnists/gary_west/)

Odd that West, further down the page headlines the Parker Buckley death as "Tragedy at the Travers". I guess I wouldn't even expect a clueless non-horse racing writer to make this association.

[ezrabrooks]

Odd that West, further down the page headlines the Parker Buckley death as "Tragedy at the Travers". I guess I wouldn't even expect a clueless non-horse racing writer to make this association.

I consider Gary West an excellent turf writer. He was associating Buckley working with Pyro, as to the Travers connection.

[lilmegahertz]

Bloodhorse has a good story on it. Has Tiger Eyed even ran her career debut yet? And if not...has it happened before that a horse was a mommy before her career first race? Cute baby though....

[Tom Barrister]

I thought I read about this about 30 years ago: a mare finishing fourth in a race (in Detroit?) and then dropping a foal shortly thereafter.

[ezrabrooks]

I thought I read about this about 30 years ago: a mare finishing fourth in a race (in Detroit?) and then dropping a foal shortly thereafter.

Was she a 2yo...?

[sandpit]

Bloodhorse has a good story on it. Has Tiger Eyed even ran her career debut yet? And if not...has it happened before that a horse was a mommy before her career first race? Cute baby though....

No races yet; that 3 furlong work she put in last Sunday was her first official one at the track; though I'd heard that she worked a few half miles where she was being broke. It's hard to believe that many 2yos have ever had a foal only because they would have had to been bred as a yearling.

[Shenanigans]

Thanks for the link.

It's still amazing -- the trainer didn't find her bagging up or any signs of the vaginal region loosing? (That's a rhetorical question).


Those areas aren't really paid attention to too much at the track except for being kept clean regularly by the groom (and maybe an occasional sew up). Trainers bend down to feel legs but I have never heard of trainers bending down to take a look-see if a filly they're training is bagging up.;) Besides, I have seen some mares not bag up until they have foaled. Such could be the case.

[joanied]

Incredible story...and from the photo I saw of mama & her foal, baby looks normal in size and she was really lovin' on him/her....warms the heart to see a mare with her newborn.
I wonder if they can do a DNA test to find out the sire...and that in itself is almost funny...we have two babies breeding...
alot of maiden mares won't show, and as mentioned, some won't bag up until after the foal is born, and looking 'loose' back there is never a sure sign of impending birth....one of my mares was a 3 year old for her first foal...no belly, never dropped, no signs 'back there', no bag...and at high noon, in a rain storm, I looked out at the pasture and I knew she was going to foal right there...by time I got out there, baby was laying in the mud. I managed to carry him back to the barn. By the way, he became a pony horse and was stabled in the stall right next to Azeri (I'm kinda taken with that!!)

Anyway...all is well and guess that's the bottom line. I hope everyone there had a chance to give that foal a hug...nothin' better than that!!