Breeding & Racing Magazine

US$2.5m Champ Blind Luck In-Foal To Bernardini

US Eclipse Award-winning 2010 Champion 3YO Filly & now recently retired 6-time Gr1-winning & 4-time Gr1-placed 5YO mare Blind Luck (Pollard's Vision-Lucky One, by Best Of Luck) who sold for US$2.5 million at last November's Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale "has been pronounced in-foal" to triple Gr1-winning Darley shuttler & US Eclipse Award-winning stallion Bernardini (A.P.Indy-Cara Rafaela, by Quiet American) reported bloodhorse.com. Bernardini (sire of 4 Gr1-winners from his initial 2 crops of racing age) stands at Darley in Kentucky for US$150,000. Blind Luck (a US$11,000 yearling at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Sale) recorded 12 wins (including Gr1 Kentucky Oaks, Gr1 Alabama Stakes, Gr1 Las Virgenes Stakes, Gr1 Vanity Handicap, Gr1 Hollywood Starlet Stakes, Gr1 Oak Leaf Stakes, Gr2 Delaware Handicap, Gr2 La Troienne Stakes, Gr2 Delaware Oaks & Gr2 Fantasy Stakes) & 9 placings (including the Gr1 Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic, Gr1 Santa Anita Oaks, Gr1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, Gr1 Darley Debutante Stakes, Gr2 Hollywood Oaks, Gr2 Cotillion Handicap, Gr2 La Canada Stakes, Gr2 El Encino Stakes & Gr3 Azeri Stakes) from 22 starts for US$3,279,520 earnings.