The Peacock family has started welcoming the next generation of its homebred grade 1 winner Senor Buscador , with the stallion's first homebred foal arriving Feb. 7 at Shawhan Place near Paris, Ky.
The bay filly is the first foal out of the winning Munnings mare Field Lass, who the Peacock family bought for $50,000 during the 2024 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Field Lass is among 13 mares the family bought to support Senor Buscador, who entered stud last year at Lane's End.
Eight of the mares acquired were bought at the 2024 Keeneland November sale with the guidance of bloodstock agent Marette Farrell.
"Marette did all the bloodstock work, looking for pedigrees that crossed well with Senor Buscador and evaluated all the physicals to make sure they were a good match," said Joey Peacock Jr., who co-bred Senor Buscador with his late father, Joey Sr. "Primarily we were looking for mares that had produced precocious runners and/or were early and precocious themselves."
Field Lass won at 2 and 3 and is a half sister to stakes-placed winner Mrs. Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn), who was runner-up at 2 in the My Trusty Cat Stakes. These two are out of the Medicean winner Moanin, who was an allowance-level winner at 2.
Some of the other mares acquired at Keeneland included Candy Kitty, a daughter of Lemon Drop Kid and a stakes winner at 2 and 3. She won the Wait a While Stakes at 2 and the Ginger Brew Stakes at 3, both at Gulfstream Park. Candy Kitty has produced four winners so far, led by group 3-placed stakes winner Cigamia (Karakontie ). The Peacocks also bought grade 2 winner Sarach (Arch), who has also produced four winners to date, led by French stakes-placed winner Saramouche.
"It is nice to start getting the foals on the ground," Peacock said. "Courtney Schneider, who foals all the mares at Shawhan Place, said this one was a beautiful filly and an outstanding individual, so hopefully we get more of those."
While the timeframe is quite early, Peacock said the plan is to keep some of the foals to race and to offer some at auction, likely as yearlings.
"We'll keep some because we want to be sure they get every chance as racehorses, and we'll put them in Todd Fincher's hands," he said. "As of right now, I would think we would sell them as yearlings rather than weanlings because I think they will develop into really nice physicals, like Senor Buscador."
Joey Peacock Sr. chose the mating that produced Senor Buscador, a son of Mineshaft out of the family's multiple stakes winner and multiple stakes producer, Rose's Desert (Desert God). The mare has produced three other stakes winners, including 2018 Sunland Derby (G3) winner Runaway Ghost (Ghostzapper). Runaway Ghost became the Texas family's first stallion venture, standing him at Double LL Farm in New Mexico.
With Fincher, Senor Buscador won his racing debut in November of his 2-year-old season at Remington Park by 2 1/2 lengths and immediately jumped into stakes competition. He captured the 2020 Remington Springboard Mile Stakes by 5 3/4 lengths in his second start. He would go on to compile a 7-2-3 record from 23 starts at 13 different racetracks. His biggest wins came in the 2024 $20 million Saudi Cup (G1), 2023 San Diego Handicap (G2), and 2022 Ack Ack Stakes (G3). He also placed in five other graded stakes that included a second in the 2024 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) by a neck behind National Treasure and a third in the 2024 Dubai World Cup (G1).
Senor Buscador retired with more than $12.9 million in earnings and entered stud at Lane's End at $7,500, which is his fee for this year.
"It is a real source of pride for the farm. When he got off the van, he took our breath away," said Lane's End farm manager Peter Sheehan last year, soon after the stallion had arrived at the farm near Versailles, Ky.
"He is a beautiful, tall, scopey horse and very elegant with a lot of bone and substance. He has great balance," Sheehan continued. "His race record speaks for itself and he has the looks to go with it. With earnings of nearly $13 million, he is the highest earner we've ever stood at Lane's End."
