Andrew Caulfield, December 22, 2009-Lookin at Lucky That was in 2004, when the Juvenile was taken by PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Wilko, an unconsidered British raider who had won only BY ANDREW CAULFIELD two of his 10 previous starts. The Eclipse voters preferred Declan=s Moon, who ended his undefeated Saturday, Hollywood Park juvenile campaign with a victory over Giacomo and CASHCALL FUTURITY-GI, $750,000, HOL, 12-19, 2yo, Wilko in the GI Hollywood Futurity. 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:43 1/5, ft. There=s every chance that we are due a repeat this 1--LOOKIN AT LUCKY, 121, c, 2, by Smart Strike year, after the Juvenile was won by another 1st Dam: Private Feeling, by Belong to Me unconsidered English-trained raider in Vale of York 2nd Dam: Regal Feeling, by Clever Trick (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). This colt had triumphed in only 3rd Dam: Sharp Belle, by Native Charger two of his five previous starts. The partisan Eclipse ($35,000 RNA yrl '08 KEESEP; $475,000 2yo >09 voters are surely going to prefer the home-trained KEEAPR). O-Karl Watson, Michael E Pegram & Paul Lookin at Lucky, who improved his record to five wins Weitman; B-Gulf Coast Farms LLC (KY); T-Bob from six starts when he landed the CashCall Futurity Baffert; J-G K Gomez; $400,000. Lifetime Record: three days ago, in the process recording his fourth 6-5-1-0, $1,243,000. *1/2 to Kensei (Mr. Greeley), graded success and his third at Grade I level. MGSW, $553,628. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ >Triple There=s one difference, though. Whereas Declan=s Plus=. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Moon sidestepped the Breeders= Cup Juvenile, Lookin at Lucky filled the runner-up spot at Santa Anita. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r However, his narrow defeat at the hands of the foreign the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, raider had a lot to do with his post position of 13, sponsored by Taylor Made. which forced him to take a wide route throughout the 1 1/16 miles. One of the unwritten laws of American racing has Whatever the result of the Eclipse voting, the Live been that he who wins the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Oak Stud team has every right to be thrilled that they shall also receive the Eclipse Award for two-year-old secured Lookin at Lucky=s dam Private Feeling for male. There have, of course, been a few exceptions to $2,000,000 from the Taylor Made Sales consignment this rule during the first 25 years of the Breeders= Cup, at Fasig-Tipton=s November Sale. but only one of the last 13 winners of the two-year-old male Eclipse failed to win the Juvenile. Caulfield cont. www.coolmore.com The price paid for the 10-year-old daughter of Belong The previously mentioned On Verra and Zanzibari are to Me marked a considerable increase on the $130,000 others out of granddaughters of Danzig, and the the mare had fetched at Keeneland=s 2004 November Grade II winner Bel Air Beauty is another, their Sale (a year after she had changed hands for as little as respective broodmare sires being Always Fair, Zieten $17,000). The escalation in her value wasn=t based and Boundary. solely on Lookin at Lucky=s exploits, as Private Feeling It isn=t too surprising that Belong to Me is showing had also highlighted her potential through her second promise as a broodmare sire, as plenty of his daughters foal, Kensei. This son of Mr. Greeley had scored a pair feature among his best winners. His Grade I-winning of notable Grade II victories in the Jim Dandy and the daughter Circle of Life has already made her mark Dwyer, and Private Feeling is again in foal to Mr. through the Grade I winner Circular Quay and the Greeley. talented The Roundhouse; the GI Acorn S. winner One remarkable aspect of Lookin at Lucky=s proud Jersey Girl is dam of the Grade III-placed Jersey Town; record as a two-year-old is that it was achieved in and Grade I winner Miss Houdini is the dam of Papa defiance of a May 27 birthday. It goes without saying Clem. This bodes well for Belong to Me=s best that a very late foaling date is by no means an daughter, Forever Together. insuperable handicap, but it is fair to assume that it Lookin at Lucky=s dam Private Feeling wasn=t in the might take a late foal some time to catch up with the same class as these Grade I winners by Belong to Me. older members of the generation, which, in Lookin at Indeed, she won only $18,245 during a seven-race Lucky=s case, could be nearly five months older. No career. She is, though, a half-sister to the Grade III doubt his foaling date had something to do with his winner Grand Charmer, who has found fame as the failing to find a buyer at $35,000 as a yearling, but he second dam of the champion filly Wait a While, and her had clearly made enormous progress by the time he third dam is Sleek Dancer, who has a host of reappeared at Keeneland seven months later, when his stakes-winning descendants, including the G1 Irish price soared to $475,000. Derby winner Sir Harry Lewis. Two recent examples of late foals that shone at four are Aragorn, who was born on May 26, and LOOKIN AT LUCKY, c, 2007 Archipenko, who was born May 30. Again, such a late Native Dancer birthday didn=t stop these high-class colts from running Raise a Native Raise You at two or becoming Grade II/Group 2 winners at three. Mr. Prospector Nashua It wasn=t until they were four, though, that these colts Gold Digger Sequence were able to demonstrate the full extent of their Smart Strike Cyane talents. The four-year-old Aragorn won four Smarten Smartaire consecutive races at Grade I or Grade II levels, while Classy ‘n Smart Nodouble boosting his Timeform rating from 110 to 125, and No Class Archipenko triumphed in a Group 2 in Dubai, a Group 1 Classy Quillo Northern Dancer in Hong Kong and a Group 2 in England, while Danzig Pas de Nom increasing his Timeform rating from 114 to 127. If Belong to Me Exclusive Native Lookin at Lucky proves capable of similar improvement Belonging Private Feeling Straight Deal as he matures, Smart Strike could have another Curlin 7-2-0-1 Icecapade on his hands. 4Fls, 2 GSW Clever Trick Regal Feeling Kankakee Miss It is well worth mentioning that Lookin at Lucky SP, 13-2-3-1 comes from Smart Strike=s first crop, sired at a fee as 10 Fls, 1 SW Sharp Belle Native Charger high as $50,000, with the Lane=s End stallion=s next 9 Fls Sleek Dancer three crops, respectively, sired at fees of $75,000, $150,000 and $125,000. As the $50,000 crop also includes On Verra, runner-up in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac, and Zanzibari, winner of the G3 Prix de Cabourg, there=s reason to get excited about these future crops. It is easy enough to see why Smart Strike was selected as the 2006 mate for Private Feeling. The son of Mr. Prospector had already demonstrated a proclivity for mares with Danzig blood, his 14 foals out of Danzig mares featuring Canadian Horse of the Year Soaring Free and the Grade III winner High Strike Zone. He had also been represented by the Grade I winner Shadow Cast, whose dam was by Danzig=s son Dayjur. Now we also know that Smart Strike is an excellent match for mares by Belong to Me, another son of Danzig. From only six foals out of Belong to Me=s daughters, he has also sired the stakes-winning Striking Tomisue and the GII Arkansas Derby winner Papa Clem. .