Chanel didn’t make us wait long for the next addition to the WTW Class of 2025! Last Friday just before 10pm she laid down and very quickly popped out a very leggy bay/gray filly by Malito de Reve. Say hello to Tigerlily WTW.

Michelle is thrilled, because this is the first filly she’s gotten from Chanel. The first two foals she had in Europe before she went to a sport career and was imported? Both fillies. But since Michelle has had her, she’s had 3 colts. Chanel is a super nice mare and an excellent producer, but she’s getting older, so having a filly from her to add to the WTW broodmare band is definitely exciting!

She’s very leggy and those hocks say that she’s going to end up with some pretty good bone. No surprise, considering her parents! Those legs were a little bit hard for her to untangle on those first few attempts at standing, but fillies always tend to have a little more initial vigor than the colts, so it didn’t take her long to sort them out.

Temperament-wise she’s VERY different from Leo. Like maybe the polar opposite. She’s very much like her mom: careful and self-sufficient. She’s still figuring out that humans have fun things to offer, like butt scritchies.

Some of them tend to start out a bit more shy like this, but once they get more secure the curiosity always wins out. She’s already getting there, and spent yesterday afternoon trying her best to chew on my ponytail. She’ll be a pocket pony soon, I have no doubt.

In the meantime, she sure is stinkin cute with those gray goggles and gray nose. There’s already a lot of gray throughout her coat too; looks like she’s gonna be one that goes gray pretty fast.

She also makes us 2 for 2 so far on the gray babies, since Leo will also turn gray from his original chestnut. There’s no chance for gray with the next few babies (not until our last mare, Gossip, who’s due in mid-May) but man, those gray genes are really insistent around here.

It’s poooosssible that Baby number 3 (Vee’s) made their entrance a few hours ago, too, but y’all are gonna have to wait for that one…