HRU Foal of the Week: Captaintreacherous colt out of Hall of Fame broodmare Precious Beauty

Jim Avritt

This Captaintreacherous colt out of Hall of Fame broodmare Precious Beauty was foaled on May 19 at Jim Avritt’s farm in Kentucky. Precious Beauty — already the dam of Sportswriter ($1,566,460) Prescient Beauty ($464,250) and 2019 Pacing Broodmare of the Year Precocious Beauty ($838,004) — also has a 2-year-old Somebeachsomewhere colt named Beachhead in the Casie Coleman Stable and a yearling Somebeachsomewhere colt named American Frontier in the 2020 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale. Precious Beauty — also the graddam of Beautyonthebeach ($540,428) and Tall Dark Stranger ($717,514) (both out of Precocious Beauty) — is now being bred to Sweet Lou. Precious Beauty, a 100 per cent producer whose progeny has won more than $3.3 million, is due to be inducted into the Living Broodmare Hall of Fame this year. She is a daughter of Jate Lobell out of Dominique Semalu.