Meet Patchen Wilkes’ New White Filly

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Patchen Wilkes Farm welcomed a rare white filly on Feb. 5. (Christina Moore/America's Best Racing)

Super Bowl Sunday was especially exciting for Patchen Wilkes Farm in Lexington, Ky., as they welcomed a new white foal during the second half of the game. The filly was the 13th white foal born on the farm since 1995 in one of the cuter statistical anomalies in horse racing.

Of more than 2.1 million Thoroughbreds registered by The Jockey Club since 1803, 179 have been white. That’s just .000085 percent. To have 13 born at one farm in the span of 22 years would be incredibly unlikely. But Patchen Wilkes isn’t just any farm.

White Thoroughbreds are an integral part of the historic land-grant farm’s tradition. The first white Thoroughbred ever registered, White Beauty, was born on the farm in 1963. Two generations later a white granddaughter of White Beauty was born in 1981, and white Thoroughbreds have continued uninterrupted for five generations since.

The latest addition’s sire and dam (father and mother) are millionaire Revolutionary and Beautiful Devil. Revolutionary finished third in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and stands at WinStar Farm, while Beautiful Devil is a white daughter of Patchen Wilkes’ Spot of Beauty and the sire Devil His Due.

America’s Best Racing was fortunate to visit with farm manager Barry Ezrine, who shared about the history of the farm’s white Thoroughbreds and more details on the filly herself. Watch the video here, and check out the slideshow below for plenty of photos of the new filly!

Bonus: In addition to their white Thoroughbreds, Patchen Wilkes raised two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan and his siblings. Though the retired Dan doesn’t live at the farm, his dam and two of his half-sisters do, and some photos of his sister Afleeting Lisa are included in the slideshow below.

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