Quick As Lightning

Quick As Lightning
Sire	Buckpasser
Grandsire	Tom Fool
Dam	Clear Ceiling
Damsire	Bold Ruler
Sex	Filly
Foaled	17 March 1977
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Ogden Mills Phipps
Owner	Ogden Mills Phipps
Trainer	John Dunlop Angel Penna, Sr.
Record	9: 3-2-3
Major wins
Hoover Fillies' Mile (1979) 1000 Guineas (1980)
Awards
Timeform rating 115 (1979), 123 (1980)

Quick As Lightning (17 March 1977 – 1981) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the classic 1000 Guineas in 1980. She was one of the leading British-trained juvenile fillies of 1979, when she won two of her three races including the Hoover Fillies' Mile. In the following year, she finished third on her debut before defeating twenty-two opponents in the 1000 Guineas. She never won again, although she finished fourth when favourite for The Oaks and was narrowly beaten in the Coronation Stakes. She was later transferred to the United States, where she failed to win in three races before dying in 1981 at the age of four.

Quick As Lightning was an "attractive, well-made" bay filly with no white markings, bred in Kentucky by her owner, Ogden Mills Phipps. She was from one of the last crops of foals sired by Ogden Phipps' stallion Buckpasser, an outstanding racehorse who was voted American Horse of the Year in 1966. He became a successful breeding stallion, siring La Prevoyante, Relaxing, Numbered Account, and L'Enjoleur. Quick As Lightning's dam, Clear Ceiling, won five races and was a half-sister to several good winners including Misty Morn, Bold Queen (Black-Eyed Susan Stakes), and What A Pleasure (Hopeful Stakes, twice Leading sire in North America). Phipps sent the filly to race in Europe, where she was trained by John Dunlop at Arundel, West Sussex.

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