Lianga (horse)
| Lianga | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Dancer's Image |
| Grandsire | Native Dancer |
| Dam | Leven Ones |
| Damsire | Sailor |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1971 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Grey |
| Breeder | Mrs. Bruce M. Donaldson |
| Owner | Daniel Wildenstein |
| Trainer |
Albert Klimscha Angel Penna, Sr. |
| Record | 21: 11-2-3 |
| Major wins | |
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Prix du Bois (1973) Prix Robert Papin (1973) Prix Imprudence (1974) Prix Maurice de Gheest (1974) July Cup (1975) Prix Jacques le Marois (1975) Prix de l'Abbaye (1975) Vernons Sprint Cup (1975) |
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| Awards | |
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Timeform top-rated older female (1975) Top-rated older female in Britain (1975) Timeform rating 120 (1973), 116 (1974) 133 (1975) |
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Lianga (1971 – after 1988) was an American-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Equally adept as a sprinter or as a miler, she won eleven of her twenty-one contests in a racing career which lasted from May 1973 until November 1975. She won her first four races as a two-year-old including the Prix du Bois and the Prix Robert Papin. In the following year she won the Prix Imprudence and Prix Maurice de Gheest. Lianga reached her peak as a four-year-old in 1975 when she recorded victories in the July Cup, Prix Jacques le Marois, Prix de l'Abbaye and Vernons Sprint Cup and was rated the best older female racehorse in Europe by Timeform, ahead of Allez France and Dahlia. After her reirement from racing she became an influential broodmare whose female-line descendants have included Danehill Dancer and Street Sense.
Lianga was a "strong, attractive" grey mare with a diamond-shaped white star bred in Maryland by Mrs Bruce M. Donaldson. During her early racing career she was so dark in colour that she was officially described as black until 1975. She was one of the best horses sired by Dancer's Image who won the 1968 Kentucky Derby but was disqualified after traces of phenylbutazone were discovered in a post-race urinalysis. As a breeding stallion, he stood in Europe and Japan, siring several other good winners including the July Cup winner Saritamer and the King's Stand Stakes winner Godswalk. Lianga's dam Leven Ones won two minor races in the United States and went on to produce the National Stakes winner Diamonds Are Trump. Leven Ones' grand-dam Star Student was a half-sister of the 1951 Kentucky Derby winner Count Turf.
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