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I have decided to give into temptation and join HARPG ([link]). This is one of three foundation mares that I am starting off with. Have two of the three drawings done so this one is going up along with one of my other foundation mare.

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I first spotted her as a two-year-old at the two-year-olds in training sale while looking to expand my barn. I had been saving up to buy my first horse for my farm for a while now so I was excited about the sale. I was hoping to find a reasonably priced two-year-old at the sale who could fulfill just that role, that’s when I first saw Lulu. The first signs of her wild antics were on the video of her workout. She was practically tugging her exercise rider out of her saddle while zigging and zagging all over the track throughout the workout. Her time was dismal but anyone with half a brain knew it was because of her antics.

Then she walked out into the sales arena where she refused to stand still for her two handlers. She was prancing around in circles around the ring pulling so hard on her handlers that it was a miracle that they hadn’t lost their grips on her yet. As I listened to them list the facts about her with both eyes on the small grey filly I recognized some of the bloodline. Having been a fan of Smarty Jones growing up I recognized the name of one of his graded stakes winning daughters automatically, looking back I now realized I had been trying to find out what had happened to this daughter’s foals, Lulu included. I just didn’t realize when looking at the books that this was one of hers and it didn’t come until they listed Lulu’s dam that this was one of the mare’s daughters. I didn’t recognize the name of the sire but I knew that the grandsire was one of Affirmed’s sons. It was good enough for me. I got her for what I considered than and still to this day a bargain price of $25,000 dollars. I left the sale shortly after with the grey beauty in tow, in hopes of her becoming a good racehorse and a pasture mate for Night.

It became quickly obvious that Lulu wasn’t going to be ready to race anytime soon. So she was put out to pasture for a while except for the occasional practice here and there. Hoping over the next few months that she would calm down but there was only moderate success until I obtained Sapphire.

As she reached the age of three I returned to the sales choosing to make another purpose. This time I bought a filly by the name of Blue Point, or as we call her Sapphire, whose owners were originally thinking about retiring her. I chose to not retire but let her rest and get over her latest set of hoof problems. Sapphire was turned out with Lulu shortly after arriving and the two have been pasture mates ever since. In fact Sapphire had the affect I had hoped she would have in starting to calm her mate’s personality down some, enough to the point when I finally get to breed her I don’t feel nervous about not leaving her first foal with a nurse mare.

Lulu made her premiere in January of her 3-year-old year at Gulfstream Park on the same as the Holly Bull Stakes leaving a lasting impression on all those who saw her win. It was one of her better days she was feeling fantastic and Sapphire’s personality was all ready starting to have small affects on her despite the fact at that point they had only been together for about a month and a half. She was actually behaving to a certain extent while still showing that infamous personality of hers. She won her maiden race in the same manner she had done that workout that I had seen on tape now just a little over a year ago. But in spite of everything she still won much to the surprise of everyone at the track, myself included.

Over the next couple of months she slowly started to straighten out and figure things out. She was and still is a smart horse who loves crowds and attention, so she quickly realized that getting in front of other horses by a certain point that she would get a good reaction from the crowd. What was most interesting was in spite of her odd running style which she was starting to grow out of the zig zag motion part of she was a much better miler than router. She was set to make her stakes debut when she grabbed a quarter, nothing major just enough to keep her off the track for a while, during a training exercise and put everything back a few months.

It quickly became obvious that this was the worst things that could have happened to her. In spite of Sapphire’s influence she quickly began to regress towards her earlier personality. To this day we have no clue why the regression occurred, but a strong suspicion is that it may be linked to her earlier years before I bought her. So when she finally returned to the track for the first time since she had injured herself she performed horribly finishing out of the money for the only time in her career that she finished completely out of the money. Her trainer wanted to put her back in training and keep her out of the races until she was at least 4-years-old which was a good few months away. But I saw that she knew that she had done something wrong during her last race since she was starting to act more like herself pre-injury. So I convinced him to run her in the allowance race only a few weeks after her bad performance.

She ran a game second to a horse that was using the race as one last practice after coming off of her own layoff before that year’s Breeder’s Cup. After giving her a break for a couple of weeks we shipped her to Churchill Downs to run in one of the graded stakes races on Breeder’s Cup weekend, the Grade II Chilukki Stakes. It had been pretty much raining on and off the entire week turning the track to slop. There was concern about how she would handle the off track but she handled it like a Champion winning while pulling away by 7 lengths. After giving her a bit of a lay-off we decided to run her one last time before the year was out and she officially turned 4 in her first grade 1 event, the Cigar Handicap. A major step up in class since it was featuring several prominent dirt milers for that year including that year’s Breeder’s Cup Dirt Mile winner. Dismissed as a long shot by most due to her strange style, the last thing most people were expecting was for her to turn the Cigar into one of the more memorable races of that season. The only people who had high hopes were those who had seen her perform before. She ended up in her first and final duel, if you could call it that considering she still had some of her old running style left in her, with the Dirt Mile winner ending with the two dead heating to everyone’s surprise.

With such great performances from Lulu in such a short span the fans were excited about a return for a second season. Unfortunately it was never to be. Lulu injured herself again during a workout not long before her projected 4-year-old season start. I had to make the sad announcement that the up and coming star was being retired before she would be able to really reach her full potential. Lulu spent the next several months recuperating at a medical center where file a while the only real exercise she got was when she was exercising with the pool but it did keep her from having another regression so it was obviously good enough for her. She only returned to the stable two weeks ago and I recently made the announcement that she will be bred for the first time in a couple of weeks. Fans and staff members alike have high hopes for this mare whose career ended far too soon for our liking.

Name: Lucky Lunatic
Barn Name: Lulu
Breed: Thoroughbred
Age: 13
Gender: Mare
Colour: Grey with chestnut base
Markings: LB and RB boots, star and stripe
Genotype: Unknown
Height: 15.2 hh
Discipline: flat dirt miler
Sire: Wold Diety
Dam: Smart Luck by Smarty Jones
Owner: Lunar Swan Stables
Breeder: Three Chimney Farms
Race Record: Starts: 18-15-3-0
3-year-old: 8-6-2-0
8-year-old: 3-2-1-0
9-year-old: 7-7-0-0
Deadheats: 1
Eclipse Awards: Champion Older Female
Major Wins: Grade II Chilukki Stakes, Grade I Cigar Mile Handicap, Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile x2, Grade I Goldolphin Mile, Grade III Texas Mile Stakes, Grade I Metropolitan Handicap, Grade III Salvator Mile Stakes, Grade III Gardenia Handicap, Grade III Seaway Stakes
Running Position: Midpack
Best Progeny: Lucky Bullet
Bred to: DWR Wild Chocolate
Bulletproof
Bos Damien
Challenger's Gold
Temperament: Her name was based off of her personality as young filly, she is starting to finally mellow out now with some help from her pasture-mate Sapphire. The barn owner purchased her as a two-year-old hoping to maybe get into Thoroughbred racing. Lulu’s wild personality kept her from ever really reaching her full potential but at the same time it is was what made her career so memorable so it is unknown if her demeanor had been calmer what her career would have been like.
Passive Abilities: Her foals have tendency to zig and zag across the track much as she did in her youth for a while or so. Given a little patience and training they will grow out of it within the time they are three, they still have the ability to win it just may not be the most spectacular time on the face of the planet until they grow and trained out of the habit.
Offspring: Wild Luck by DWR Wild Chocolate: [link]
Lucky Bullet by Bulletproof [link]
Lunar Gold by Challenger's Gold [link]
For stud/lease: Available just note me first

Lucky Lunatic owned by me
8-year-old season: [link]
9-year-old season: [link]
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ItalySky's avatar
wow gorgeous mare! :heart: