La Voyageuse (foaled 1975 in
Ontario
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) is a Canadian
Thoroughbred
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racehorse
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who was a three-time
Sovereign Award {{refimprove, date=October 2021
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The most prestigious award for horses is Sovereign Horse of the Y ...
winner. She was bred and raced by prominent
Quebec
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businessman and major racing stable owner
Jean-Louis Levesque
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.
Retired to
broodmare
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duty for the 1981 season, La Voyageuse produced thirteen foals between then and 1997. One of her daughters, Society Lady (1990), produced the
European Champion Two-Year-Old Filly,
Bint Allayl.
La Voyageuse was inducted into the
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
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on August 27, 2009.
References
La Voyageuse's pedigree and partial racing stats** https://web.archive.org/web/20090214202204/http://canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/events/index.cfm#22
1975 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Ontario
Racehorses trained in Canada
Sovereign Award winners
Thoroughbred family 4-g
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