Meet Goodnight Olive's First Foal

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Come along with the TDN team and meet Ollile, the first foal out of dual champion Goodnight Olive at Resolute Farm. Farm manager Noel Murphy describes the son of Not This Time as "big time all the time" as the colt's personality seems to match his massive build.

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00:00This spring at Resolute Farm, welcome to the first foal out of Dual Champion at Goodnight Olive.

00:07The Colt by Not This Time arrived on February 10th and already seems to have won over the team at Resolute Farm.

00:13Farm manager Noel Murphy introduces us to the new arrival.

00:17Well, the farm nickname is Ollie and Ollie likes it big time all the time.

00:24So whether it's coming in from the paddock or going out to the paddock, he's wanting to engage.

00:29Whether that's bite or jump on you or be petted or whatever it is.

00:33He just enjoys everything he does.

00:37Absolutely spectacular individual for a mate. He was 150 pounds and that's a confirmed on a weighing scale 150 pounds.

00:4420 days old, he was 228 pounds.

00:48So he's gaining then close to 4 pounds a day.

00:52Again, for a maiden mare to be able to do that.

00:55And she looks great herself. She's kept her weight.

00:58Again, as ever with Olive, she overachieves on everything she does.

01:01And this was another example of overachieving.

01:04We have 14 folds on the ground and he's still the biggest newborn.

01:08And he just loves human interaction.

01:10He thinks humans are big chewy ties sometimes and wants to play with you.

01:15Which is fine now, but as he gets bigger, might be a little more serious for the human involved.

01:22But no, he has absolute class personality and just fun to be around.

01:28If he was a human, he'd be just a super happy person all the time.

01:32He's a gift to us.

01:34We just love the fact that John put that amount of trust in buying this mare and she has rewarded him with this calibre of a first time fall.

01:44I've been doing this in Kentucky 27 years.

01:47You're not going to get a better first time maiden fall than him.

01:52A lot of times them great race mares struggle with the transition.

01:56Everything she does, she seems to just get it right.

01:59We're looking forward to breeding her back.

02:01Looking like she's going to be bred this year to seize the grey.

02:04And John is very excited about that.

02:07There's something about her story that just appeals to me.

02:10The fact that she was not the chosen one at the start and took her time to get there.

02:16But on the biggest days and the biggest questions, that's when she showed up.

02:19And I just love that about her.

02:21I can't express how proud I am of all she's done since she's came here.

02:25She's been the centre of attention and she's never ever disappointed in whatever we've asked her to do.

02:30Whether it's greeting the public, taking pictures, just being a representative of the farm in the field,

02:37to getting pregnant, carrying the pregnancy and then falling down the 150 pound maiden first time fall.

02:43So she's just got to love her.

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