• By two-time leading sire Smart Strike, winner of the nine-furlong Philip H. Iselin H. (G1) in 1996
• Sire's best son is two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, North America's all-time leading money earner and 2007 Preakness S. (G1) winner
• Other notable runners by Smart Strike include champion turf horse English Channel, top sprinter Fabulous Strike and Canadian Horse of the Year Soaring Free
• Smart Strike's progeny are a versatile bunch, ranging from sprinters to marathoners on all kinds of surfaces
• Lookin at Lucky's dam, Private Feeling, has also produced 2009 Jim Dandy S. (G2) and Dwyer S. (G2) winner Kensei
• Private Feeling is a daughter of multiple Grade 3-winning sprinter Belong to Me, whose other exceptional fillies include champion turf mare Forever Together
• Lookin at Lucky is bred on the same cross as Papa Clem, last year's Arkansas Derby (G2) winner and fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby (G1); both are by Smart Strike out of mares by Belong to Me
• Belong to Me's other daughters have produced the likes of Circular Quay, winner of the 2007 Louisiana Derby (G2), and Radiohead (GB), a smart juvenile last year
• Lookin at Lucky comes from the same family as champion filly Wait a While
• Figures to inherit more stamina from his sire's half of the pedigree than from his dam's side