L'Emigrant
| L'Emigrant | |
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Racing colours of Stavros Niarchos
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| Sire | The Minstrel |
| Grandsire | Northern Dancer |
| Dam | Suprina |
| Damsire | Vaguely Noble |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 26 April 1980 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Dark Bay or Brown |
| Breeder | Bedford Farm Inc |
| Owner | Stavros Niarchos |
| Trainer | Francois Boutin |
| Record | 12:5-5-2 |
| Major wins | |
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Prix La Rochette (1982) Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte (1982) Prix Djebel (1983) Poule d'Essai des Poulains (1983) Prix Lupin (1983) |
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| Awards | |
| Timeform rating: 126 (1982), 129 (1983) Top-rated French-trained three-year-old colt (1983) |
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L'Emigrant (26 April 1980 – ca. 1995) was an American-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who was one of the best horses of his generation in Europe at two and three years of age. He won five of his twelve races and never finished worse than third in a racing career which lasted from August 1982 until September 1983. He won the Prix La Rochette and Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte as two-year-old and went on to win the Prix Djebel, Poule d'Essai des Poulains and Prix Lupin in the following year. He was also placed in several major races including the Grand Criterium, Prix du Jockey Club, Prix d'Ispahan, Prix Jacques le Marois, Prix du Moulin and Man o' War Stakes. He was retired from racing at the end of 1983, but had little success a breeding stallion.
L'Emigrant was an exceptionally good-looking brown horse with a narrow white blaze and two white socks bred by Bedford Farms Inc of Paris, Kentucky. He was sired by The Minstrel, a Canadian-bred horse who won the Epsom Derby in 1977. As a stallion, The Minstrel alo sired the Breeders' Cup Mile winner Opening Verse, the 1000 Guineas winner Musical Bliss and the William Hill Futurity winner Bakharoff as well as Palace Music, who won the Champion Stakes and sired Cigar. L'Emigrant's dam Suprina had previously produced the filly Salpinx, who was beaten a short head by Three Troikas in the Prix Vermeille. Suprina was a daughter of Perfecta who was a sister of Halo, Tosmah and Queen Sucree, the dam of Cannonade. Perfecta was a granddaughter of the influential boodmare Almahmoud, whose other descendants included Northern Dancer, Danehill Machiavellian and Bago.
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