Paseana

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Paseana


caption =
sire = Ahmad
grandsire = Good Manners
dam = Pasiflin
damsire = Flintham
sex = Filly
foaled = 1987
country = Argentina
colour = Bay
breeder = Haras Vacacion
owner = Jenny & Sidney Craig
trainer = Ron McAnally
record = 36: 19-10-1
earnings = $3,317,427
race = Clasico Francisco J. Beazley (1990)
Gran Premio Seleccion (1990)
Gran Premio Enrique Acebal (1990)
Silver Belles Handicap (1991)
Santa Margarita Handicap (1992)
Milady Handicap (1992, 1993)
Apple Blossom Handicap (1992 & 1993)
Vanity Handicap (1992)
Santa Maria Handicap (1992, 1994)
San Gorgonio Handicap (1992)
Spinster Stakes (1993)
Chula Vista Handicap (1994)
Hawthorne Handicap (1995)

Breeders' Cup wins:
Breeders' Cup Distaff (1992)
awards= American Champion Older Female Horse (1992, 1993)
honours = United States Racing Hall of Fame (2001)
Paseana Handicap at Santa Anita Park
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Paseana (1987-2006) was an Argentine-bred Thoroughbred mare racehorse who competed very successfully in Argentina and in the United States where she was elected to the Racing Hall of Fame.

A descendant of the extremely important sire, Nearco, Paseana won Grade 1 races in Argentina before being sold at age four to Americans, Jenny & Sidney Craig, noted business personalities who founded the weight loss company, Jenny Craig, Inc..

Based in California, Paseana's conditioning was taken over by future Hall of Fame inductee, Ron McAnally. In 1991, Paseana began a seven-race win streak of which five were Grade I wins.

After capturing the Grade I Santa Margarita Handicap in 1992, Paseana ran second in that race in each of the next three years. In 1992, she was a supplementary entry in the Breeders' Cup Distaff at a cost of $200,000. Sent off by betttors 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 Eclipse Award for American Champion Older Female Horse.

In 1993, the six-year-old mare won two more Grade I races, capturing the Apple Blossom Handicap and Spinster Stakes 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 consective 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 Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky. As a broodmare, she experienced fertility problems and in 1998 her owners sent her to Argentina. There, in 2000, she gave birth to her only foal who would be named Paseana's Girl.

On June 21, 2006, Paseana died at Haras San Ignacio de Loyola in Argentia following hemorrhaging due to a ruptured abdominal blood vessel.

In 2001, Paseana was inducted in the United States Racing Hall of Fame.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/paseana Paseana's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=358 Paseana at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]
* [http://news.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=34123 June 23, 2006 Bloodhorse.com article on the death of Paseana]