I love this mare and her foals lots, basically.
Power Stone's dam, Hold the Torch, was a late in the season AJ pickup during my second sim year. Hold the Torch had produced a stakes winner in Ash Tarasin's Animus, and an allowance, both several years before, and not a whole lot since. I was new, so I didn't have much money and ended up sending her to Thanos, since he threw a good number of allowances and stood for only 10k. Hold the Torch died foaling a filly I later named Power Stone.
When Festivus rolled around, that filly was one of the big surprises of my first "real" foal crop when she galloped stakes late bloomer. As a two year old, Power Stone was decent, breaking her maiden first out, then picking up checks in stakes company. As a new three year old, Power Stone improved to freak, becoming my first homebred freak, and quickly picked up her first stakes win.
She was a frustrating horse to run at times, but picked up several more stakes wins throughout her career despite my questionable at times management of her. As a broodmare, though, she's been even more fun that she was on the track. Her first foal was an allowance by Poet's Corner that never got it together on the track, but she retired this year as a blue hen.
I leased Power Stone to Em for her Y62 foal, which resulted in a daughter of Marvel - Captain Marvel. I've been waiting very impatiently for this filly to run for a long time now, and this week she took home the Steward's Cup Debutante to become my first SC (and trophy) winner! I'm still in a bit of disbelief over it, but can't wait to see what else is in store for next year.
Looking forward, Power Stone has a stakes late bloomer by Mr. Wonderful that will hit the track next year, as well as a foal by Dave Matthews Band. This family has already helped me hit a lot of milestones, and I'm hoping they'll continue to do that for a long time to come.
