Like-A-Butterfly

Like-A-Butterfly
Sire	Montelimar
Grandsire	Alleged
Dam	Swifts Butterfly
Damsire	Furry Glen
Sex	Mare
Foaled	19 April 1994
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	P J McGee
Owner	J P McManus
Trainer	Christy Roche
Record	17:12-0-2
Earnings	£320,817
Major wins
Champion INH Flat Race (2001) Royal Bond Novice Hurdle (2001) Deloitte Novice Hurdle (2002) Supreme Novices' Hurdle (2002) Irish Champion Hurdle (2003) Powers Gold Cup (2005) Mildmay Novices' Chase (2005)

Like-A-Butterfly (19 April 1994 – 7 February 2013) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who competed in National Hunt racing. Although she did not begin competing in public until she was seven years old she had a successful racing career, winning twelve of her seventeen races, including five at Grade I level. She was unbeaten in three National Hunt Flat races including the Champion INH Flat Race and her first five over hurdles including the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle, Deloitte Novice Hurdle and Supreme Novices' Hurdle. She won the Irish Champion Hurdle but missed the whole of the next season through injury. In her final season she competed in steeplechases and won three times including the Powers Gold Cup and the Mildmay Novices' Chase. After retiring from racing she produced five foals before dying of horse colic at the age of nineteen.

Like-A-Butterfly was a bay mare with no white markings bred in Ireland by P. J. McGee. he was sired by Montelimar, a lightly-campaigned son of Alleged who won the Gallinule Stakes in 1984 and became a very successful National Hunt stallion: his other progeny included the Grand National winners Hedgehunter and Monty's Pass. Her dam, Swifts Butterfly, was a poor racehorse who never finished better than third in thirteen attempts in 1990 and 1991.

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