Flying Water

Flying Water
Sire	Habitat
Grandsire	Sir Gaylord
Dam	Formentera
Damsire	Ribot
Sex	Mare
Foaled	8 April 1973
Country	France
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Dayton Ltd
Owner	Daniel Wildenstein
Trainer	Angel Penna, Sr.
Record	11: 6-0-0
Major wins
Nell Gwyn Stakes (1976) 1000 Guineas (1976) Prix Maurice de Gheest (1977) Prix Jacques le Marois (1977) Champion Stakes (1977)
Honours
Top-rated older female in Europe (1977) Timeform rating: 132

Flying Water (8 April 1973 – 25 June 1978) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which was disrupted by injury, she ran eleven times and won six races between July 1975 and June 1978. After winning her only race as a two-year-old, she won the Classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse in the spring of 1977. Having missed the second half of her three-year-old season through injury, she returned in 1978. She defeated leading sprinters in the Prix Maurice de Gheest, mile specialists in the Prix Jacques le Marois, and middle-distances horses in the Champion Stakes. In 1978, she was sent to race in the United States where she was killed in an accident in a race at Belmont Park on 25 June.

Flying Water was a dark chestnut filly with a white star and a white sock on her left foreleg, bred in France by Dayton Ltd. She was sired by Habitat, an American-bred, British-raced miler who became one of the leading European stallions of the 1970s and 1980s. His other progeny included Habibti, Marwell, Rose Bowl, and Steinlen and he was the British Champion broodmare sire on three occasions. Flying Water's dam, Formentera was a half-sister to the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner Felicio and closely related to the Epsom Derby winner St. Paddy.

During her racing career, Flying Water was owned by Daniel Wildenstein and trained by Angel Penna, Sr.. In 1976, Wildenstein and Penna won three of the five British Classics: in addition to Flying Water's 1000 Guineas, they won the Epsom Oaks with Pawneese and the St Leger with Crow.

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