• Fifinella (1913–1931) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a career that lasted from 1915 until 1917 she ran seven times and won four...
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    Fifinella was a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney for a proposed film from Roald Dahl's book The Gremlins. During World War II, the Women Airforce...
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  • before returning to form to win the Epsom Derby. He went on to defeat older horses in the Coral-Eclipse and the Juddmonte International Stakes. City of Troy...
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    Suffragette Emily Davison was struck by King George V's horse, Anmer, she died four days later. 1916: Fifinella, who also won The Oaks, is the most recent (as...
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    important in the long term was Polymelus who sired three Derby winners (Fifinella, Pommern and Humorist) and Phalaris, the most influential sire of the...
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    sired by Japanese Triple Crown champion Deep Impact, who was the Japanese Horse of the Year in 2005 and 2006. Auguste Rodin is the first foal produced by...
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  • are known as widgets, and females as fifinellas, a name taken from the great "flying" filly racehorse Fifinella, that won both the Epsom Derby and Epsom...
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    was unbeaten in five races. In the following season, he became the first horse for thirty-five years to win the English Triple Crown, a feat that has not...
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    surgery earlier that year. Galileo was a 16 1⁄2 hh (64.5 inches, 164 cm) bay horse with a narrow white blaze and a white sock on his near hind leg. He was...
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    the age of two years he was rated 9 lbs (4 kg) below the champion filly Fifinella. At three years he was not up to the classic standard at a mile but he...
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    the following year. In 2006, she regained her crown, becoming the second horse to win Breeders' Cup races in non-consecutive years. Her silks were black...
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    Eclipse Stakes and Yorkshire Oaks. Enable was the 2017 and 2019 European Horse of the Year. Enable's racing career lasted from November 2016 to October...
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    Hyperion's conformation: "[Hyperion was a] muscular, powerfully built chestnut horse...he was short-legged and long-bodied for his height [15.1 hands (61 inches...
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    Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1886 English Triple Crown and was labelled the 'horse of the century' at the time. He also won the St. James's Palace Stakes,...
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  • Shergar (category European Thoroughbred Horse of the Year)
    stated they stole the horse. The IRA has never admitted any role in the theft. The Aga Khan, Shergar's owner, sent the horse for training in Britain...
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  • Cheveley Park Stakes (category Flat horse races for two-year-old fillies)
    1911: Belleisle 1912: Merula 1913: Shake Down 1914: Lady of Asia 1915: Fifinella 1916: Molly Desmond 1917: Freesia 1918: Bayuda 1919: Bright Folly 1920:...
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    (1927–1958), also known as Blenheim II, was a British Thoroughbred race horse who won The Derby in 1930. As sire, he had a major influence on pedigrees...
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    and the Irish Derby. His performances earned him the title of British Horse of the Year. Santa Claus was a dark-coated bay stallion standing a little...
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    Stakes as a four-year-old in 1906. His daughter Silver Fowl produced Fifinella and was the female-line ancestor of many other major winners. "Wildfowler...
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    on RAF fighters. In the same novel, Dahl called the wives of gremlins "Fifinellas", their male children "Widgets", and their female children "Flibbertigibbets"...
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    of a Godstone inn where he was staying suddenly died. Being the finest horse in the stable, and assuming he was owned by the stablemaster he was briefly...
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    Fame (1987–2011) was a British-bred and British-trained Thoroughbred race horse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from October 1989 until November...
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    the smallest horses Waxy ever produced. In the words of his groom, Dryman, "he was the lowest and longest, and most-double jointed horse, with the best...
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  • racecourse debut he was well beaten by the fillies Telephone Girl and Fifinella in the Bibury Stakes ant Newmarket. At the same track in October he recorded...
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  • Stakes – Canyon 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Clarissimus The Derby – Fifinella The Oaks – Fifinella St. Leger Stakes – Hurry On Australia Melbourne Cup – Sasanof...
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    Lion a head away in third place. After the race Appleby commented "He's a horse we held in high regard. He's growing up all the time and has done a professional...
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    from the eleventh crop of foals sired by Deep Impact, who was the Japanese Horse of the Year in 2005 and 2006, winning races including the Tokyo Yushun,...
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  • Clements Hayes Davenport Will Hines as Kenny Kicks Christine Bullen as Fifinella Episode 813: Winkers and Blinkers 5/22/23 Jena Friedman Heather Anne Campbell...
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    the first Irish-trained horse, and the third owned by an American, to win The Derby. In the same year, he became the first horse to complete the Epsom Derby-Irish...
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    British Classic Races (category Horse races in Great Britain)
    (1909) Sunstar (1911) Tagalie (1912) Jest (1913) Princess Dorrie (1914) Fifinella (1916) Tranquil (1923) Manna (1925) Saucy Sue (1925) Coronach (1926) Trigo...
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