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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Smarty Jones is a Papa!




The Lexington Herald-Leader broke the front page story on Wednesday, January 11th. Smarty Jones' first foal was born at 12:10 am. It's a little filly with a white star, stripe and snip and 4 white socks. She was born at Stone Farm in Paris, KY (Daddy lives just down the road from me at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway). Momma, Shoppingwithbetty, went thru a "textbook" birth according to the article and by 9:00 am she and her baby were outside, where the baby "bounced around". The baby is "very well-made, very strong, very alert, very independent. She has tons of substance; she's beautiful", the article noted.

Smarty now awaits the births of 91 more foals this year. With a stud fee of $100,000 each, you do the math! His second breeding season starts in February. At the recent Keeneland sale, a mare bred to Smarty sold for $950,000!

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