First Foal a Filly for 2021 Horse of the Year Knicks Go

Taylor Made Stallions' Knicks Go, a five-time grade 1 winner, two-time Breeders' Cup winner, and the 2021 Horse of the Year, sired his first reported foal when a filly bred by Alex and Kendra Penn was born Jan. 12. The filly is produced from the Pioneerof the Nile mare Seeking a Star, a half sister to 2-year-old stakes winner Miss Interpret and out of a half sister to multiple grade 1 winner Paulassilverlining, the dam of Artorius, impressive winner of the 2022 Curlin Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. As a 5-year-old in 2021, Knicks Go was a gate-to-wire winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar in a time of 1:59.57 for the 1 1/4 miles—just two clicks off Candy Ride (ARG)'s 18-year track record. He also annexed that year's Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) at Gulfstream Park and the Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga en route to being named World's Best Racehorse and Horse of the Year, as well as champion older dirt male. At 4, Knicks Go won the 2020 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) in a track record time of 1:33.85. He demonstrated his precocity at 2, winning the Breeders' Futurity (G1) at Keeneland by 5 1/2 lengths. He banked $9,258,135 in his racing career, a grade 1 winner at 2, 4, and 5. With 151 mares in his first book, Knicks Go stands this year for an advertised fee of $15,000.