Miss Finland (horse)

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Miss Finland
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Racing colours of Arrowfield Stud
Sire Redoute's Choice
Grandsire Danehill
DamForest Pearl
Damsire Woodman
Sex Mare
Foaled16 February 2003
Country Australia
Colour Bay
Breeder Gainsborough Stud Australia
OwnerArrowfield Group Pty Ltd
Trainer David Hayes
Record26:11-5-1
Earnings$4,632,775
Major wins
Golden Slipper Stakes (2006)
The Thousand Guineas (2006)
Crown Oaks (2006)
Australian Guineas (2007)
Arrowfield Stakes (2007)
Memsie Stakes (2007)
Awards
Australian Champion Two Year Old (2006)
Australian Champion Three Year Old (2007)

Miss Finland is a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. She is a bay mare sired by Redoute's Choice out of Forest Pearl, who was a daughter of The Oaks winner Moonshell.

Miss Finland was trained by top South Australian trainer David Hayes. At the age of two years, she won the AAMI Golden Slipper, the world's richest juvenile race, which is run over 1,200 metres, and ran second in the Blue Diamond Stakes. As a three-year-old, her stellar form continued, which saw her win the Crown VRC Oaks, run over 2,500 metres at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival, as well as further Group One wins in the Thousand Guineas, Australian Guineas and Arrowfield Stud Stakes. She resumed as a four-year-old with a win in the Memsie Stakes, which was to be her only win in nine starts that season before retirement.

She comes from the Northern Dancer sire line and has a double cross of him in the fourth generation of her pedigree. [1]

Miss Finland was named the "SPORTSMAN 2006 Horse of the Year". [2]

Miss Finland is now residing at Arrowfield Stud.

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References

  1. TesioPower 2000, Stallions of the World
  2. Public crowns Miss Finland