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Here she is! Lady Rebecca's filly foal by Kayf Tara
Laurence SquireIt's a new chapter - Lady Rebecca produces a filly
A NEW chapter in our Born To Run story has begun with the news that Lady Rebecca has given birth to a filly foal. While the plan is to follow her story from here until the racecourse, regular readers of our newspaper articles and blogs will already know that we have been following her since Lady Rebecca's first attempts at conception to the stallion Kayf Tara more than a year ago.
Considering Lady Rebecca produced no foal last year, having absorbed the one she was carrying to the champion, Irish-based jumps sire Presenting, the fact that we have a foal on the ground is of considerable relief.
Lady Rebecca took her time, though. She was three weeks overdue by the time she foaled at 5.16am on Tuesday April 19, an hour that is unusually close to daybreak for a mare to foal.
"A lot of the mares seem to be producing late this year, I have another one that is three weeks overdue," says the Tweenhills Stud foaling manager Julie May. "I'm not sure why."
The good news is that the filly was born without complications. Within hours of her birth she was described by Julie as "tall andquite gangly", something she has noticed in a few Kayf Tara foals she has delivered, although the new born foal will start to fill out within days.
The foal was quick to feed, just as her mother, now that she is back indoors in astable, was quick to box walk, a nervous habit that she is unlikely to surrender at the age of 19.
So, in early 2010 we decided to ‘adopt' two mares in foal and both have delivered us fillies: Born To Run, now a yearling, ismost likely to be sold later this year; Lady Rebecca has huge sentimental value to Tweenhills Stud boss David Redvers, so he could well end up syndicating her lastest daughter to race rather than sell.
All we need now is a name.
Born To Jump, anyone?
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