La Tendresse
| La Tendresse | |
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| Sire | Grey Sovereign |
| Grandsire | Nasrullah |
| Dam | Isetta |
| Damsire | Morland |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1959 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Frank Tuthill |
| Owner | Pansy Parker Poe |
| Trainer | Paddy Prendergast |
| Record | 9:6-2-0 |
| Major wins | |
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Seaton Delaval Stakes (1961) Molecomb Stakes (1961) Lowther Stakes (1961) King George Stakes (1962) |
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| Awards | |
| Top-rated two-year-old in Britain (1961) Timeform top-rated two-year-old (1961) Timeform rating 135 (1961) |
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La Tendresse (1959–1972) was a British-bred Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Regarded as one of the fastest two-year-old fillies to race in Britain and Ireland she won five races in 1961 including the Molecomb Stakes and the Lowther Stakes, and was rated the best European juvenile of either sex. She was less dominant as a three-year-old, but did win the King George Stakes at Goodwood. After her retirement from racing she had some success as a broodmare.
La Tendresse was a bay filly with no white markings bred in Britain by the Irish breeder Frank Tuthill. Her sire, Grey Sovereign, a son of Nasrullah, won the Richmond Stakes in 1950 before becoming a successful breeding stallion. Her dam, Isetta, never won a race, but was a good broodmare who went on to produce the Coronation Cup winner I Say.
La Tendresse was brought back to Europe and in September 1960 she was offered for sale at Doncaster where she was bought for 4,800 guineas by the Irish trainer Paddy Prendergast, acting on behalf of Pansy Parker Poe. Prendergast, who had built a reputation for handling precocious juveniles such as Windy City and Floribunda, trained the filly at his stables at the Curragh, County Kildare.
La Tendresse ran six times as a two-year-old in 1961 and won five races, all of them over the minimum distance of five furlongs. She won two races in Ireland, one at the Curragh where she won by a margin of six lengths, but failed on her first run in England for the Lily Agnes Stakes when she was unsuited by the very soft ground at Chester in May and finished second by five lengths to Sir Percy Loraine's colt Rescind.
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