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Goldikova
Goldikova
	"She's like a car. When she goes she has the speed and can do anything and at any distance." - Freddy Head.
Sire	Anabaa
Grandsire	Danzig
Dam	Born Gold
Damsire	Blushing Groom
Sex	Mare
Foaled	2005
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Wertheimer et Frère
Owner	Wertheimer et Frère
Trainer	Freddy Head
Record	23: 16-5-2
Earnings	€4,374,889 ($6,154,157)
Major wins
	Prix de Toutevoie (2007); Prix de la Lorie (2007); Prix Chloe (2008); Prix Rothschild (2008, 2009, 2010); Prix du Moulin (2008); Falmouth Stakes (2009); Prix Jacques Le Marois (2009); Prix d'Ispahan (2010, 2011) ; Queen Anne Stakes (2010); Prix de la Foret (2010) ; Breeders' Cup wins:; Breeders' Cup Mile (2008, 2009, 2010)
Awards
	European Horse of the year (2010); European Champion Older Horse (2009, 2010); French Champion Older Horse (2009); American Champion Female Turf Horse (2009, 2010)

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Goldikova (foaled March 15, 2005, in Ireland) is a champion Thoroughbred racehorse based in France, although she has raced in North America and England. She has won thirteen group one races, with nine victories over colts and geldings. This puts her above the great Miesque as the only European-trained horse to have won more than 10 Group I races since their introduction in the 1970s. Goldikova is the only horse to win three Breeders' Cup Mile races, winning it in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Racing record

She was bred by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, who handed over her race conditioning to former champion jockey Freddy Head. She has been ridden by Olivier Peslier in all of her race starts.

2007

Goldikova won both of her starts at age two, capturing the Prix de Toutevoie and the Prix de la Lorie at Chantilly Racecourse.

2008

At age three, Goldikova began the 2008 season in April, running monthly thereafter. She started with two seconds and a third and lose to Zarkava (In Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and Prix de Diane. ), then reeled off three consecutive wins. The first one came in the Prix Chloe, followed by the Prix Rothschild, in which she defeated both the French Classic winner, Darjina, and the British Classic winner, Natagora.

Goldikova's third straight victory of the year came in September at Longchamp Racecourse in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin in which she defeated Darjina and Natagora again as well as top Irish colt Henrythenavigator. She again defeated the males in winning the 2008 Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita Park in California and was a finalist for the Eclipse Award's American Champion Female Turf Horse for 2008.

2009

Racing at age four, Goldikova made her first start in May's Prix d'Ispahan, finishing seventh on a soft course. In July, she won England's Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse. On 2 August, she won her second straight Prix Rothschild at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse. At the same Deauville course on 16 August, Goldikova won her sixth group one race, easily defeating her male counterparts in the Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse.^[1] Goldikova then returned to Santa Anita Park to win her second Breeders' Cup Mile, with a different racing style. She was second last for much of the race and at the top of the stretch she was forced to go five horses wide. It looked like she was going to lose, but then she changed leads again and surged past Coragious Cat to win in 1:32.26, 0.8 seconds off of the world record held by Mr. Light.

2010

Following her 2009 Breeders' Cup win at Santa Anita Park, Goldikova was rested at the Head family's Haras du Quesnay in Normandy until mid February, when she was put back in training at Freddy Head's base at Chantilly Racecourse.

On 23 May, she won her 2010 debut at Longchamp in the Prix d'Ispahan, finishing up 9.20f (1 1/8m)^[2] in 1:49.4 while holding off a re-rallying Byword (who subsequently won the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot) and setting a new stakes record in the process.

In her second start of 2010, on 15 June, Goldikova won the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot, defeating the 2009 winner Paco Boy by a neck in 1:37.74, taking 0.5 seconds off of the stakes record. It was her ninth group 1 victory, and sixth victory against males.

On 1st August, Goldikova competed a three-peat ^[3] of wins in the Prix Rothschild. After she settled in third throughout the race, Oliver Peslier barely had to ask her before she took off and quickly separated herself from the rest of the field.

On August 15th in the Prix Jacques le Marois, two weeks after the Prix Rothschild win, Goldikova suffered her first defeat of the year, coming in second to Makfi. Her connections believed that it was largely because of the very soft ground, which she has shown her extreme dislike for in the past. However, she beat Paco Boy again for the second time.

On 3rd October, Goldikova made her final start before the Breeders' Cup Mile, beating a field of 16 males in the Prix de la Forêt at Longchamp, including Dick Turpin, Paco Boy, and 1,000 Guineas winner Special Duty. By winning, she broke the record set by Miesque for the most Group/Grade I wins ever by a female European horse.

She made history on November 6th, 2010 when she became the first horse to win a Breeders' Cup race three times by winning the Breeders' Cup Mile at Churchill Downs and defended her crown a second time in a row.

On 16th November Goldikova was awarded with two Cartier Racing Awards, Horse of the year and Champion Older Horse. She became the only horse to win the Champion Older Horse award twice.

2011

On May 22nd Goldikova made her 6 year old debut, winning the Prix d'Ispahan for the second time.

June 14th she came in second by 3/4 length to Canford Cliffs in the Queen Anne Stakes. Jockey Olivier Peslier was fined for overweight 2 pounds after weighted in.

Tabulated predigree

Pedigree of Goldikova, bay mare, 2005
Sire Anabaa (USA)	Danzig	Northern Dancer	Nearctic
		Northern Dancer	Natalma
		Pas De Nom	Admiral's Voyage
		Pas De Nom	Petitioner
	Balbonella	Gay Mecene	Vaguely Noble
		Gay Mecene	Gay Missile
		Bamieres	Riverman
		Bamieres	Bergamasque
Dam Born Gold (USA)	Blushing Groom	Red God	Nasrullah
		Red God	Spring Run
		Runaway Bride	Wild Risk
		Runaway Bride	Aimee
	Riviere d'Or	Lyphard	Northern Dancer
		Lyphard	Goofed
		Gold River	Riverman
		Gold River	Glaneuse

References

^ 3.29PM 16 AUG 2009 (2009-08-16). "FRANCE Runaway Marois victory for mighty Goldikova - Horse Racing News". Racing Post. Retrieved 2010-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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^ Hayler, Will (1 August 2010). "Goldikova completes hat-trick of Prix Rothschild successes at Deauville". The Guardian. London.

External links

Goldikova's Past Performances & News

[1] 3.29PM 16 AUG 2009 (2009-08-16). "FRANCE Runaway Marois victory for mighty Goldikova - Horse Racing News". Racing Post. Retrieved 2010-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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[3] Hayler, Will (1 August 2010). "Goldikova completes hat-trick of Prix Rothschild successes at Deauville". The Guardian. London.

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 ==External links==
+[http://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Goldikova Goldikova's Past Performances & News]
 * [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/international-news/2008/August/03/Goldikova-edges-Darjina-to-win-Prix-Rothschild.aspx ''Thoroughbred Times'' August 03, 2008 article on Goldikova's win in the 2008 Prix Rothschild]
 * [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/international-news/2008/September/07/Goldikova-wins-Prix-du-Moulin-Henrythenavigator-fifth.aspx ''Thoroughbred Times'' September 7, 2008 article on Goldikova's win in the 2008 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp]