Spendthrift Farm's Thousand Words , the undefeated grade 2 winner at 2 and multiple stakes winner at 3 by Pioneerof the Nile, sired his first reported foal on Jan. 18 when a filly was born at Bison Ridge Equine in Bartlesville, Okla.
Bred by Hidden Creek Farm, the chestnut filly is the first foal out of the Laoban mare Laoban Furen, whose dam is the stakes-winning and stakes-producing Malibu Moon mare Hung the Moon. Laoban Furen is a half sister to Brill, a million-dollar, sale-topping yearling and a Santa Anita Park grade 1-placed stakes winner.
"She's a really nice foal out of a maiden mare that is from a good family. This is a classy-looking filly and very correct," said Scott Pierce, owner of Hidden Creek Farm.
Also a million-dollar yearling, Thousand Words won the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) at 2. At 3, he won the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) and defeated leading 3-year-old Honor A. P. in the Shared Belief Stakes at Del Mar in a final major prep for the 2020 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), earning a 104 Equibase Speed Figure.
Thousand Words, who is out of the multiple grade 2-winning and grade 1-placed mare Pomeroys Pistol, bred 184 mares in his first book in 2021. He stands for $7,500 this year.
