First and foremost for me will always be
Foremost : )
She's not the best broodmare out there.
She also didn't win a bunch of stake races.
I have other horses who've won more money, and even one that has won a SC race but for me, Foremost still outshines those horses.
When I joined this game back in 2008, new members got to breed one CAH (create a horse).
Some here would call her an 'old style CAH'. I believe she was one of the last of that batch before The Steward stopped the CAHs for a short time and then came back with it in a different structure.
I still remember the day I created her, because I spent the day before looking at pedigrees here on the Sim and trying to figure out what I wanted to create.
I wanted Secretariat in the pedigree...but I also wanted Sadler's Wells and Darshaan - and thought those two might produce a nice turf horse...and I wasn't finding anything I liked for creating a dirt runner...but I still wanted Secretariat in the mix.
So, I ended up requesting Sadler's Wells as the Sire with Darshaan as the dam sire - and I put Secretariat in the back of the pedigree. I thought if he was throwing more dirt than turf runners...then at least that far back into pedigree it wouldn't mess things up too much...and I would still get a descendant of one of the horses I admired so much.
Back then you had to submit your list of sires to the Steward and wait until she bred the CAH with your choice of stallions in the pedigree and sent it to you. : )
I named my CAH, Foremost...because she was the first horse I bred here (or at least chose the breeding for), and also because I was hoping for a horse that would be first and foremost in front of the pack at the end of each race. : )
For a beginner Sim player, she was a sweet horse to own.
She made me a little money in almost every race ran, and kept my stable in the green - she was very forgiving of some of the newbie mistakes I made too. : )
After retiring she produced a number of really nice foals.
I have used the word 'for' as the first 3 letters in all of Foremost's babies. Her best ones so far have been
Fortuitious - earned $668,640 before she retired
Foreward - earned $507,250 before he retired
Forgave - is 4 years old and still racing...so far she's earned $708,900 and may be my first million dollar earner out of Foremost.
Her yearling,
Foreshadows has a 'stakes' quality gallop
I named her last foal,
Foresight and of course hope he does well to.
In all, so far, Foremost's offspring has earned a total of $1,956,380 for my stable.
When Foremost turned 12...and every year after that...I can't express how I use to dread breeding season. Every year I kept expecting to see the message 'your mare died while foaling'. But she held out until that totally Awesome feature was implemented that allowed a person to save an older mare from death upon a bad foaling feature was implemented
She gave birth to her last baby at the ripe old age of 17 and is now enjoying life in what has been her home for about 13 years now, the pastures at the farm, Riverstone, Germany.
Stormy