First foals for Blue Prize, Elate

Multiple Grade 1 winners Blue Prize and Elate each produced her first foal, both fillies, early Tuesday morning in Kentucky.

Blue Prize won the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Distaff over Midnight Bisou, and two days later sold for a sale-topping $5 million to Larry Best’s OXO Equine at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. Best bred her to leading sire Into Mischief, and the Pure Prize mare delivered her filly at Taylor Made in Kentucky, where she is boarded. Best intends to breed her back to his Grade 1 winner Instilled Regard, who enters stud this season at Taylor Made.

Blue Prize, a Group 1 winner in her native Argentina, won five graded stakes in the United States, including two editions of the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes at Keeneland.

Elate, by Medaglia d’Oro, raced as a homebred for Claiborne Farm and longtime partner Adele Dilschneider, and was bred to Claiborne’s flagship sire War Front in her first season as a broodmare. According to Claiborne’s Walker Hancock, the mare’s War Front filly arrived 11 days early, but both the mare and foal are in good health.

Elate won five graded stakes, highlighted by the Grade 1 Alabama and Grade 1 Beldame in 2017. Her breeding plans for 2021 have not been announced.