First Foal for Pencarrow Stud

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday July 25

The foaling season has begun in New Zealand with Pencarrow Stud announcing the arrival of their first foal, a filly from 2008 NZB Filly of the Year Insouciant.

A half-sister by Keeper to Group III winner Copper Mountain, Insouciant won the Group I New Zealand Thousand Guineas and this filly by Westbuty Stud's Tarzino is her 11thfoal.

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Tarzino filly from Insouciant - image Pencarrow Stud

Insouciant has produced three winners from five foals to race and her unraced daughter Fallingwater is the dam of stakes-placed Aqueduct. She has an unraced two year-old Dundeel filly that sold for $200,000 as a yearling and a weanling filly also by Dundeel.

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