Summer Wind Farm

If we hadn't seen it ourselves, we might not believe it. But then again, history and literature have long shown that the relationship between a mother and her son is a special one that can affect present times and linger into future generations.

The first image in this group tells this story more fully than words can.

Feathered (Indian Charlie) recently took her young son by Tapit -- the full brother to 2022 World's Best Racehorse and American Horse of the Year -- over to a corner of their expansive field.

With a breeze blowing over their backs, they stood quietly and seemed to gaze upon the huge banner promoting Flightline that had hung over Fasig-Tipton's Humphrey S. Finney sale pavilion in Saratoga in 2023 while promoting the champion as a Saratoga graduate. (We thank Fasig-Tipton for gifting Summer Wind with the banner, which is proudly displayed on the wall of a storage facility near the foaling barn.)

To onlookers who happened upon that moment with mother and foal, it was almost as if Feathered was showing her new son how special his family is -- and what he himself might become one day.

And why not? Born on April 21, the c**t undoubtedly possesses the family charisma in looks while possessing his own special attitude.

Watching his relationship with Feathered develop has been so interesting. Long known at Summer Wind as a tough customer who would push aside any other mares and foals in order to be first in line for carrots, Feathered seems to have mellowed over time.

With her now juvenile son Wingmead, also a full sibling to Flightline, Feathered was rather more easygoing than she had been with the champion and her earlier foals. He tended to be very independent and she was fine with that.

Feathered and her 2025 filly, another full sibling to Flightline named Red Sky Dawning, enjoyed a new dynamic: they were more like cherished friends who completely understood one another from the moment the filly arrived. They would stand together for long moments, from their earliest days to the time of weaning, with the mother gently grooming the gray filly's back with her teeth and the filly responding in kind.

This newborn c**t, a bay like Flightline but marked with a unique and artistic swoosh looking like a feathery waterfowl, came into this world like a rascally firecracker. He challenged his mother from the get-go, even interrupting her naps by standing over her and nibbling at her ears, but they now seem to have closely bonded.

We recently spied them sleeping in their stall together, the mare resting her head over the back of the foal, who was curled up against her in the most blissful expression of mother and foal affection.

The future beckons, as Feathered seemed to show her son when they gazed at Flightline's banner.

It was an unforgettable moment, and we hope that all the dreams embodied in their reflection on the family's greatest achievement will ultimately come true in this c**t's own special way.

(continued on Tuesday)

In our continuing tale of the Summer Wind unicorns -- those bright, virtually white mares with exceptional connections to achievement -- we present New Narration (Tapit), the rarest kind of unicorn since she has produced a G1 winner who has, to date, banked over $3.68 million.

Now 11 years old, New Narration also has a perfect record of 3 winners from 3 starters, led by her son Saudi Crown (Always Dreaming), victor in the G1 Pennsylvania Derby in 2023 and still racing successfully this year with a triumph in the G3 Commonwealth Stakes at Keeneland in April.

New Narration is a diva. She strikes all kinds of distinctive and photogenic poses, and she also is an alpha type mare who is highly protective and proud of her foals. She brings them right over to introduce them to us.

This year, just like her fellow unicorn and field mate Suchada (Frosted), New Narration produced a filly by Not This Time. While Suchada's daughter is a bright chestnut, New Narration's is blackish in appearance with a healthy salting of silver hairs in her coat that make her appear even more magical as she bounces like a dark shadow alongside her dam.

Born just four days after the Kentucky Derby, the filly can go from zero (i.e. a long nap in the grass) to seemingly 90 mph, zooming across the field with such abandon that her unicorn mother loses all composure and resorts to nervously nickering to her to "Please stop that!" Perhaps her need for speed is due to the fact that she is bred 3x4 to Storm Cat and on a cross that so far, while not tried all that much, has yielded 25% stakes winners from starters.

With this tempestuous filly as well as her 2yo daughter named Nashville News (Nashville), who now in training for Jane Lyon, and a yearling c**t by Justify, New Narration could be just beginning to reveal to us the full scope of her magical story.

They could be called the unicorns of Summer Wind. Four young mares, all mostly white in appearance and, hopefully, eventually the stuff of legends and myth through their progeny.

Each has the bloodlines for folklore as each is either the dam of, or sibling to, a G1 winner or champion or, in two cases, closely related to a Broodmare of the Year. Thus, there are no better features for a .

The first in this series will focus on Suchada, a now 8-year-old daughter of Frosted who arrived at Summer Wind last fall after Jane Lyon purchased her at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. Suchada is a half sister to 2024 Broodmare of the Year Puca (Big Brown) as well as to G1 winner Finnegan's Wake (Powerscourt).

The genes are extra strong in the family as the extraordinary Puca has produced Kentucky Derby winner Mage and Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch, both by Good Magic, as well as G1 winner Baeza, who is by Summer Wind-bred McKinzie.

Just two days after this year's Kentucky Derby was run for the 152nd time, Suchada produced a fancy chestnut filly by Not This Time at Summer Wind and it seems like ever since then, the two have been racing across the green fields of spring.

While it's true Suchada does not have a horn and is not a unicorn in the sense of the creature that William I first emblazoned on the Scottish royal coat of arms in the 12th century, it's easy to see her as the people of that time saw their unicorns -- a symbol of power and purity, a fierce and noble being who could heal the body and spirit. In Celtic art, the unicorn was often depicted with other symbols linking it to an eternal cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

In this way of thinking, Suchada is a portal to the future at the farm, with hope that she can carry on the stellar production record of Puca while establishing her own family branch. In addition to her Not This Time filly, she also has a juvenile c**t by Cyberknife and a yearling filly by Elite Power.

Yet at this time, in this moment, it is more than enough to just delight in the imagination of magic and myth while watching Suchada and her foal float across the fields.

(The other three unicorn mares of Summer Wind will be featured soon; each can take the breath away and run wild in the mind with thoughts of what might yet be possible)