The recent success of Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Farm, located in Georgetown, Kentucky, has been a breath of fresh air. In 2017, Lyon bred a pair of grade 1-winning two-year-olds: 
Moonshine Memories (a finalist for the juvenile filly Eclipse Award) and 
McKinzie. She also owns the Yankee Victor mare Littleprincessemma, dam of 2015 Triple Crown champion 
American Pharoah.

In 1995, Lyon’s late husband, Frank, purchased the Kentucky property because his wife always dreamt of owning Thoroughbreds in the Bluegrass. Currently, Lyon estimates her broodmare band numbers 25; she has 22 new yearlings and plans to have a crop of 19 foals this year. The dams of Moonshine Memories and McKinzie juveniles’ dams are mainstays of her barn.

“It has been such a rewarding experience for me because both of those are foals of older mares of mine, one of which I bred and her mother, and it’s very, very exciting,” Lyon said.  “I mean, I’ve been fortunate enough to buy some grade one producers and some stakes producers, but to have bred two out of mares I’ve had for a long time and have almost given up on is exciting. And I hope they will both be successful. It’s just a thrill. I’ve been in this business for now about 23 years and honestly those are the two first grade one winners I had produced from my own stock like that, so it was real exciting for me.”