What Lori Hendrickson looked like a typical day who looked at her family's Meadowbrook farm in Shelbyville, Ky.
Hendrickson spied out one of the breeding materials of the farm, which was in a paddock on a day on which spring indicated. She knew the mare, It is eaten in possession of surfside stables and in the foal up to the four-time winner of the Breeder 'Cup Oscar performance Should be born every day, so she went to her.
Next came something that Hendrickson, a former operational trainer, said, will be in her thoughts forever.
“I went to the paddock to look after her, and (Kona Kai) somehow sitting towards me. I said: 'You ok, mom?' I went away to rest them, “recalled Hendrickson. “She had grown for a few days, but not much. When I went away, I heard her somehow grunt and I looked back and she crowded.”
From there, things moved quickly, with Hendrickson being supported by her employees. Kona Kai, an 8-year-old daughter of Palace boss Anyone who gave birth to their first foal in 2024, an Oscar performance foal foal, was led into the barn with the break before it arrived there.
“We climb into the barn and it begins to climb. This is my second year of foals horses, so I have not yet experienced horse foals while standing, but I had heard of it,” said Hendrickson.
“The baby came out perfectly, the umbilical cord broke out quickly, and then Kona took two steps and lay down. At that time I thought something was right with her. I gave her a banamine shot (an inhibitory anti -inflammatory anti -inflammatory anti -inflammatory anti -inflammatory anti -inflammatory.
Hendrickson said neither she nor the vet who took care of Kona Kai during her pregnancy and scanned her, had a idea that she was wearing twins.
“As a girl mare last year, she was gigantic and was gigantic this year,” said Hendrickson. “Maybe the only difference was that her stomach was lower this time.”
Siblings Debbie and Howard Appel from Surfside Stables
The appels were recently at the brood end of the business with two breeding pieces, Kona Kai and Phantom opening . They started their racing team in 2018 and among their top runners there are a few dented pile money. Oceanic And Midnight rises . Oceanic won the 2022 da Hoss inserts at colonial downs.
They bought Kona Kai for 75,000 US dollars at the Keeneland September Saling Sale in 2018 and drove with four seasons. She retired with a record of 1-3-1 in 11 starts. Debbie Appel said the mare was a soldier before giving birth to twins when she survived strangles (a bacterial infection of the upper respiratory trace), which she was put up on a farm that recovered from a leg injury.
“We are so excited. This was a crazy, wild trip,” said Debbie, who first announced the news through photos and videos March 12 about the Social Media platform X. not surprising, these contributions were welcomed with an amazing of “Likes” and Reposts.
“The fact that Kona and these foals had such a good result is obviously proof of Kona, but also for her vet, who provided care during her pregnancy and in particular Lori, who only provided extraordinary care. In my opinion, we would not actually be here.
“I think in the last (several days) we all appreciate – my brother, Howard and I and Lori – how sporadic it is.”
Shortly before Kona Kai and her daughters rose back to Shelbyville, Debbie said that every twin had gained 22 pounds at Rood & Riddle and that Barr told her that she was so “vigorous and playful” that she could hardly keep her to carry out an exam. Debbie said: “We are all very grateful” for the care that the horses received from Rood & Riddle.
In addition to the steep probability of the twins that survive or thrive after birth, those who rarely make it to the races make it. A statistical report by Bloodhorse about the 2018-22 in North America shows that 16 horses were registered via the Jockey Club and were born as part of a surviving twin set. (According to TJC numbers, the North American foal foals were more than 92,000 from 2018 to 2012, which means that twins only made up 0.0002%).
Six of these horses reached the starting gate for combined 31 starts, and only one entered the circle of the winner. Galaxy AffairA Louisiana brand that won a girl race in her seventh career at Delta Dads in December 2022. This is your only win of 15 starts so far. Your uneven twin did not drive.
The father of twins, Oscar performance, on the Mill Ridge Farm
None of the stallions that have created the twins in the referenced data is as top-class as the Oscar performance of Mill Ridge Farm, which is currently in Kentucky for $ 45,000. Of his first three harvests to reach the races Tricari A class 1 winner with more than 1.3 million US dollars in the bank.
A connection between a celebrated name and a twin embankment of 1980 of the year of the year of the second dam, Stop on Red, was a twin.
For those who are involved in this latest twin saga, the data on twins in relation to racing career are noise and side by side. The real victory here is that Kona Kai and her twins are robust and get stronger every day.
“I said (Debbie Appel) whether you will ever run or not, the fact that we did this is a miracle for themselves,” said Hendrickson.
