Bessarabian (racehorse)

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Bessarabian (racehorse) - Wikipedia

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Bessarabian
Bessarabian winning Selene Stakes, 1985 (Woodbine)
Sire	Vice Regent
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Tete de Linotte
Damsire	Turn-To
Sex	Filly
Foaled	1982
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Welcome Farm (Richard Winn)
Owner	Eaton Hall Farm
Trainer	Michael J. Doyle
Record	37: 18-5-4
Earnings	$1,032,640
Major wins
Gardenia Stakes (1984) Ontario Debutante Stakes (1984) Mazarine Stakes (1984) Selene Stakes (1985) Lady Angela Stakes (1985) Ontario Colleen Handicap (1985) Hibiscus Stakes (1985) Woodbine Breeders' Cup Stakes (1986) Ontario Matron Stakes (1986) Seaway Stakes (1986) Canadian Stakes (1986) Tattling Handicap (1986)
Awards
Canadian Champion Older Female Horse (1986)
Honours
Bessarabian Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack

Bessarabian (foaled 1982 in Pennsylvania) is a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned by Thor Eaton's Eaton Hall Farm, the Eaton family member entrusted her race conditioning to Mike Doyle. The millionaire granddaughter of Northern Dancer, Bessarabian raced in Canada and the United States.

Racing career

As a two-year-old, Bessarabian had an outstanding season with wins in the Ontario Debutante and Mazarine Stakes.^[1] Sent to compete in the United States, on October 26 she scored an impressive victory at Garden State Park, winning the $200,000 G2 Gardenia Stakes by more than nine lengths.^[2]^[3] That performance would see Bessarabian sent off as the parimutuel betting favorite in the 1984 inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies held that year at California's Hollywood Park Racetrack. However, coming out of the first turn of the race, Fran's Valentine veered wide and knocked another horse off stride and into Bessarabian who never recovered and finished fifth. Fran's Valentine won the race but was disqualified and the win awarded to runner-up, Outstandingly.^[4]

Bessarabian began her 1985 three-year-old campaign with a win in the Hibiscus Stakes at Florida's Hialeah Park Racetrack.^[5] Returned north to Canada, she was the winner of three important stakes at Woodbine Racetrack.^[1]

Following her most successful year in racing, four-year-old Bessarabian was voted the 1986 Sovereign Award for Champion Older Female Horse. She was then retired from racing having won eighteen of her thirty-seven starts.^[6]^[7]

Retired to broodmare duty, Bessarabian produced four foals, the most successful of which in racing was probably Dagda, a stakes-winning gelding born in 1992 sired by Alysheba.

In 1996 the Woodbine track renamed the Etobicoke Handicap in her honor.^[1]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Bessarabian, bay mare, 1982
Sire Vice Regent	Northern Dancer	Nearctic	Nearco
		Nearctic	Lady Angela
		Natalma	Native Dancer
		Natalma	Almahmoud
	Victoria Regina	Menetrier	Fair Copy
		Menetrier	La Melodie
		Victoriana	Windfields
		Victoriana	Iribelle
Dam Tete de Linotte	Turn-To	Royal Charger	Nearco
		Royal Charger	Sun Princess
		Source Sucree	Admiral Drake
		Source Sucree	Lavendula
	Pink Nightie	Windfields	Bunty Lawless
		Windfields	Nandi
		Pink Sapphire	Vincentive
		Pink Sapphire	Lump Sugar (family: 5-g)

External links

Bessarabian's pedigree, partial racing stats, and progeny

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 2018 Woodbine Media Guide Archived October 15, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Horse Racing Roundup". UPI (Archives). 1985-04-01. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
^ "Saturday Sports - Horse Racing, Meadowlands". New York Times, Sports, page 48. 1984-10-27. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
^ "Event By Year". Breederscup.com. Retrieved 2012-06-02.
^ "Horse Racing Roundup". UPI (Archives). 1985-04-01. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
^ "Past Award Winners". The Jockey Club Canada. 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
^ "Bessarabian". Equibase Co LLC. 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2021-11-29.

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