Coal Front Sires First Foal

Spendthrift Farm stallion Coal Front , the five-time graded winner and earner of more than $1.8 million, sired his first reported foal Jan. 26 when a filly was born at Shade Tree Farm in Ocala, Fla.

"This is a good foal. Nice, big, strong filly with a lot of leg, good shoulder, and hip. I like her best of the three foals the mare's had," said Bert Pilcher, owner of Shade Tree Farm. "She was quickly up and quickly nursed, everything was perfect. If I owned the stallion, I'd sure be happy about this foal. I think she's going to be a knockout yearling."

Bred by Tracy Pinchin & Kenneth D'Oyen, the flashy bay filly is out of the Wildcat Heir mare Defying Gravity, an 11-time winner from the family of multiple graded stakes winner and sire Too Much Bling .

Coal Front captured graded stakes at five different distances from six furlongs to 1 1/16 miles on dirt. He won the Amsterdam Stakes (G2) and Gallant Bob Stakes (G3)—in which he earned a 107 Beyer Speed Figure—as a 3-year-old and took the Mr. Prospector Stakes (G3) at 4. He carried his top form into his 5-year-old season, scoring victories in the Razorback Handicap (G3), Godolphin Mile Sponsored By Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum City - District One (G2), and Parx Dirt Mile Stakes.

Coal Front stands at Spendthrift Farm, where he is set to stand his second season for a fee of $5,000.