Gentildonna
Sign in to savewas a Japanese thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In 2012, she won the Japanese Fillies Triple Crown and was voted Japanese Horse of the Year. She was also the first three-year-old filly to win the Japan Cup, in 2012, and the following year became the first two-time winner of that race. In 2014 she added a victory in the Dubai Sheema Classic and finished her racing career by winning the Arima Kinen, earning her a second Horse of the Year award.
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14 sectionsContents
- Background
- Racing career
- 2011: two-year-old season
- 2012: three-year-old season
- 2013: four-year-old season
- 2014: five-year-old season
- Race record
- Breeding career
- Awards and assessment
- In popular culture
- Death
- Pedigree
- See also
- References
was a Japanese thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In 2012, she won the Japanese Fillies Triple Crown and was voted Japanese Horse of the Year. She was also the first three-year-old filly to win the Japan Cup, in 2012, and the following year became the first two-time winner of that race. In 2014 she added a victory in the Dubai Sheema Classic and finished her racing career by winning the Arima Kinen, earning her a second Horse of the Year award.
==Background== Gentildonna was a bay filly bred in Japan by the Northern Farm in Hokkaido. She was sired by the Japanese Triple Crown winner Deep Impact out of the British mare Donna Blini, who won the Group One Cheveley Park Stakes in 2005. Her full sister Donau Blue won the Kyoto Himba Stakes and Sekiya Kinen. The horse's name comes from the Italian word for "noble lady".