Coretta

Coretta
Sire	Caerleon
Grandsire	Nijinsky
Dam	Free At Last
Damsire	Shirley Heights
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1994
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Gerald W. Leigh
Owner	Gerald W. Leigh
Trainer	Christophe Clement
Record	18: 7-4-4
Earnings	$748,420
Major wins
La Prevoyante Handicap (1998, 1999) Long Island Handicap (1998) Orchid Handicap (1999)

Coretta (foaled February 11, 1994 in Ireland) is a Thoroughbred racemare who competed in the United States. She was bred and raced by Gerald Leigh, proprietor of England's Eydon Hall Stud. Leigh owned and bred her dam, Free At Last, who was a daughter of the 1978 Epsom and Irish Derby winner, Shirley Heights. A philanthropist with a strong social conscience who was a member of the Council of Management for the Animal Health Trust, Gerald Leigh named Free At Last for those words contained in Martin Luther King's August 28, 1963, I Have a Dream speech. Leigh named Free At Last's first foal, Coretta, for Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King. Gerald Leigh later gave another of Free At Last's foals the name of the African American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks.

Coretta's sire was Caerleon, the 1983 Champion Three-Year-Old Colt in France who was a son of the English Triple Crown champion, Nijinsky.

Gerald Leigh maintained racing stables in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Coretta raced once at age two in England and in 1997 at age three made five starts with her best performance a win in the Breitling Handicap at Newmarket Racecourse under jockey Frankie Dettori.

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