Leallah | |
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Sire | Nasrullah |
Grandsire | Nearco |
Dam | Lea Lark |
Damsire | Bull Lea |
Sex | Filly |
Foaled | 1954 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Charlton Clay |
Owner | Charlton Clay |
Trainer | MacKenzie Miller |
Record | 20: 10-2-2 |
Earnings | US$152,784 |
Major wins | |
Alcibiades Stakes (1956) Lassie Stakes Astoria Stakes (1956) Colleen Stakes (1956) Falls City Handicap (1957) |
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Honours | |
DRF & TSD American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (1956) |
Leallah (foaled February 7, 1954 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse won seven of her eight starts in her first year of racing and was voted the 1956 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly by Daily Racing Form and Turf & Sports Digest.
Leallah was conditioned for racing by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee MacKenzie Miller. She made her racing debut on June 12, 1956 with a win under Eddie Arcaro at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. She and Arcaro won another non-stakes race a week later on the same track then was sent to Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey where she equaled the track record for five furlongs with a time of one minute, four seconds flat in easily winning the Colleen Stakes. After winning the July 7th Lassie Stakes under Bill Hartack at Chicago's Arlington Park, Leallah then came back to Long Island, New York and won the Astoria Stakes at Jamaica Race Course. Reporting on the race, the July 19, 1956 edition of the New York Times wrote that "Leallah's reputation as the "wonder filly" of the season grew at the Jamaica race track yesterday."