Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Country House

Country House Lookin At Lucky - Quake Lake, by War Chant

Bred in Kentucky by J.V. Shields, Jr.

Lookin At Lucky, winner of the 2010 Preakness Stakes and an Eclipse Award champion at ages 2 and 3, had a career year as a sire in 2018. He looks to keep his momentum with a Kentucky Derby candidate, as his son Country House, runner-up in the Risen Star, will attempt to punch his ticket to the spring classics in the Louisiana Derby. The colt is from a family that has crossed well with Lookin At Lucky and his sireline in the past.

Lookin At Lucky was led last season by five-time Grade 1 winner and Eclipse Award divisional champion Accelerate, who concluded his campaign with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Earlier that same day, Lookin At Lucky’s Chilean champion Wow Cat, winner of the Grade 1 Beldame Stakes, came within a length of catching champion Monomoy Girl in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Lookin At Lucky would have been the first sire to pull the Classic-Distaff double in the same season. In addition to Accelerate and Wow Cat, Lookin At Lucky was represented in 2018 by Chilean Group 1 winners Dafonda, Diane, El Picaro, and La Canita; Grade 2 winners Dr. Dorr and Money Multiplier; and Grade 3 winner Lookin to Strike.

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The late Quake Lake, a winner sprinting on synthetic, produced three winners from as many starters, with all those runners winning at a mile or longer. Her son Mitchell Road won the Albert M. Stall Memorial Stakes last month going 1 1/16 miles on the Fair Grounds turf. Mitchell Road is by English Channel, who like Lookin At Lucky is a son of the versatile classic sire Smart Strike.

Quake Lake was produced by the Grade 1-placed turf mare Shooting Party, making her a half-sister to graded stakes-winning millionaire Breaking Lucky, by Lookin At Lucky. He provides more evidence of stamina bred on this cross, as his stakes performances include a victory in the 2015 Prince of Wales Stakes, the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, at 1 3/16 miles on dirt.