TDN Weekend December 2016 Issue 9
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her broodmare band. Now, she is keeping a couple of her best foals to race herself, including American Pharoah's 2-year-old half-sister Chasing Yesterday, who was named in honor of Frank Lyon and is currently in training with Baffert. "Instead of just keeping the ones that don't sell, I will keep one or two of my better ones to try to run in our colors," Lyon said. "I had never had horses with Bob before, but because he trained Emma's family and that is where Coolmore chose to send [American Pharoah's full brother] St Patrick's Day [after privately purchasing him from Lyon], so I thought it only made sense to have him look at her." Chasing Yesterday is now training up to her debut, which will hopefully take place at Del Mar in August. Lyon already has her eye on Littleprincessemma's 2018 Tapit colt as a future Summer Wind runner. "I am barn blind. I love them all and I acknowledge that I am like that," Lyon said. "But, everyone who has seen that Tapit colt has said he is one of the best they have ever seen, including people who should know a good horse when they see one. It is not just the way he looks. He has something about him, an intelligence and an at- titude that you don't see often. Maybe it is the look of eagles that D. Wayne Lukas talks about." All of the changes in the farm's program, as well as Summer Wind's recent successes on the racetrack and in the sales ring, which include breeding the $520,000 Fasig-Tipton July Sale topper, a Flatter colt out of home- bred No Curfew, give Lyon hope that the farm so near and dear to her heart has a big future ahead of it. "It gives me hope to be at this place where we are now just starting to produce Grade I horses out of my old mares," Lyon said. "It is rewarding. All these years, you think, 'What am I doing?' You have to keep refining it. We do everything in our power to make the farm the best