Like-A-Butterfly
Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 | |
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Sire | Montelimar |
Grandsire | Alleged |
Dam | Swifts Butterfly |
Damsire | Furry Glen |
Sex | Mare |
Foaled | 19 April 1994[1] |
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) |