GOLDIKOVA DIES 06 Jan 2021 16:37
Jockey Olivier
Peslier led the tributes to Goldikova after the brilliant racemare died, aged
16.
The daughter of
Anabaa won 17 of her 27 career starts for trainer Freddy Head and owners the
Wertheimer brothers, including 14 Group or Grade One victories.
In 2010 she became
the first horse to win the same Breeders’ Cup race on three occasions when
completing a hat-trick in the Mile, while she claimed two top-level wins on British
soil in the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket and the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal
Ascot.
She was retired in
2011 after finishing third in her bid for a fourth Breeders’ Cup Mile success
at Churchill Downs – and Peslier, who was ever-present in the saddle during
Goldikova’s racing career, has nothing but happy memories.
He said: “It’s very
sad that she has passed away. She was a champion and an amazing filly.”
Goldikova went on to
produce several foals, most notably Galileo filly Terrakova, who won a Group Three
for Head in the same colours and was only narrowly beaten when third in the
2017 French Oaks.
