Lightening Pearl

Lightening Pearl
Sire	Marju
Grandsire	Last Tycoon
Dam	Jioconda
Damsire	Rossini
Sex	Mare
Foaled	15 February 2009
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Castlemartin Stud & Skymarc Farm
Owner	Pearl Bloodstock
Trainer	Ger Lyons
Record	7: 3-1-1
Earnings	£137,846
Major wins
Round Tower Stakes (2011) Cheveley Park Stakes (2011)

Lightening Pearl (foaled 15 February 2009) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from June 2011 and June 2012 she won three of her seven races. As a two-year-old she was one of the best fillies of her generation in Britain and Ireland, finishing third in the Debutante Stakes before winning the Round Tower Stakes and the Cheveley Park Stakes. She failed to reproduce her best form in two races as a three-year-old and was retired from racing.

Lightening Pearl is a dark bay mare with a amall white star and a white sock on her left hind leg bred in Ireland by Castlemartin Stud & Skymarc Farm (Tony O'Reilly and his wife Chryss). Her sire Marju won the St James's Palace Stakes and finished second in the Epsom Derby in 1991 before being retired to stud. The best of his other progeny included Viva Pataca, Soviet Song and Indigenous. Lightening Pearl's dam Jioconda showed good form as a racemare in Ireland, winning two of her eight races including the Listed Silken Glider Stakes in 2005. She was a descendant of Pato, a mare whose other progeny included My Emma and Classic Cliche. Jioconda also produced Lightening Pearl's full brother Satono Crown.

In September 2010, the filly was consigned to the Goffs sale and was bought for €125,000 by Redvers on behalf of Fahad bin Abdulla Al Thani's Pearl Bloodstock Ltd. She was sent into training with Ger Lyons at Dunsany, County Meath.

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