This is it, the final new foal of the WTW 2025 class! And in a “T” naming year, with a dam named Headleys Chatterbox aka Gossip, what other possible name was there besides The Tea? We think it fits her.

Her barn name is Ivy, and she’s looking like she’s going to be a little carbon copy of her mother. Which definitely isn’t a bad thing at all, because Gossip competed through the 3* level in the UK before being imported. Ivy’s sire is Weston Justice, who competed through 4* level in the UK and has produced multiple 4* and 5* offspring. With parents like that and 78% blood, you could say this one is bred to event, for sure!

Gossip did make us work for it a little bit though. She was a maiden, and you never really know how maidens are going to handle the whole birthing process. Sometimes they get worried, sometimes they just don’t push (looking at Vee with her first one), and in Gossip’s case… sometimes they just don’t lay down. She stood there and pushed Ivy out like a giraffe.

It took three of us to get Ivy safely out and guided down to the floor gently (which is harder than it sounds, picture trying to hold/carry a slippery dolphin) but other than that, all went well. Gossip has been a great mom so far, and Ivy sure is ridiculously cute.

Although she’s an interesting black/bay ombre right now, Ivy will definitely gray out – the hyperpigmentation is a dead giveaway on that front. My guess is she’ll gray out really slowly though, as her dam has done, and go through the very pretty steel gray phase. She has very very few gray hairs in her coat right now, as opposed to our other gray foal this year, Lily, who was born with solid gray around her eyes and a gray nose.

And if there’s any doubt that Ivy is bred to be a serious event horse, well… she’d just like to put that to bed right now.

This girl loves to gallop, and has been jumping stuff in her pasture since day 2. Maybe she’s born with it….