Paseana (August 23, 1987 – June 21, 2006) was an Argentine-bred

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racemare who competed very successfully in Argentina and in the

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, where she won 10

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races. She received two

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s and was also elected to the Racing Hall of Fame.

Breeding

Paseana was sired by successful racehorse and sire

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. Her dam, Pasiflin, was by Flintham (IRE), a Group winner and leading sire in South America. Paseana was linebred (4m x 5f) to the important

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Nasrullah and her sire's dam, Azyade, was inbred (2m x 4f) to Congreve.Morris, Simon; ''Tesio Power 2000 - Stallions of the World'', Syntax Software

Racing record

Paseana won Grade 1 races in Argentina before being sold at age four to Americans Jenny & Sidney Craig, noted business personalities who founded the

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company Jenny Craig, Inc. Based in

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, future Hall of Fame inductee Ron McAnally took over Paseana's conditioning. In 1991, Paseana began a seven-race win streak, of which five were Grade I races. After capturing the Grade I

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in 1992, she ran second in that race in each of the next three years. In 1992, she was a supplementary entry in the

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at a cost of $200,000. Sent off by bettors as the second choice to Saratoga Dew, Paseana started from the difficult post position #14 at the far outside but won the most important race of her career by four lengths. Her 1992 performances earned her the

for

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. In 1993, the six-year-old mare won two more Grade I races, capturing the

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and

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, then finished second by a nose to Hollywood Wildcat in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. Despite her loss in the Distaff, Paseana's 1993 performances earned her a second consecutive Eclipse Award for American Champion Older Female Horse. Racing at ages seven and eight, Paseana won the 1994 Chula Vista Handicap and the 1995 Hawthorne Handicap. She was retired after her 1995 campaign having won nineteen races, of which ten were Grade I events, and was sent to

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. As a

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, she experienced fertility problems. In 1998, her owners sent her to Argentina. There, in 2000, she gave birth to her only foal, named Paseana's Girl. On June 21, 2006, Paseana died at Haras San Ignacio de Loyola in Argentina following hemorrhaging due to a ruptured abdominal blood vessel.June 23, 2006 Bloodhorse.com article on the death of Paseana
Retrieved 2011-1-22 In 2001, Paseana was inducted into the United States Racing Hall of Fame.

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Paseana's pedigree and partial racing stats
1987 racehorse births 2006 racehorse deaths Thoroughbred family 3-c Racehorses bred in Argentina Racehorses trained in Argentina Racehorses trained in the United States Breeders' Cup Distaff winners Eclipse Award winners United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees

Breeding

Racing record

See also

References

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