Alywow

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Alywow


caption =
sire = Alysheba
grandsire = Alydar
dam = Triple Wow
damsire = Coastal
sex = Filly
foaled = 1991
country = Canada
colour = Bay
breeder = Kinghaven Farms
owner = Kinghaven Farms
trainer = Roger Attfield
record = 19: 7-6-3
earnings = $648,431
race = Natalma Stakes (1993)
Nijana Stakes (1994)
Canadian Breeders' Cup Handicap (1994)
Lady Dean Stakes (1994)
Canadian Maturity Stakes (1995)
awards= Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1994)
Canadian Champion Turf Horse (1994)
Canadian Horse of the Year (1994)
honours = Alywow Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack
updated= CURRENTTIME, CURRENTDAYNAME CURRENTMONTHNAME CURRENTDAY CURRENTYEAR (UTC)

Alywow (1991-2002) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion filly racehorse. She was owned and bred by David Willmot's Kinghaven Farms near King, Ontario. Her sire was Alysheba, the 1988 American Horse of the Year and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee whose own sire was another U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Alydar. Alywow's dam was Triple Wow, a daughter of 1979 Belmont Stakes winner Coastal who was a son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Majestic Prince.

Trained by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Roger Attfield, at age two Alywow won the Natalma Stakes on the turf course at Woodbine Racetrack, her home base in Toronto. At age three in 1994, she finished third on dirt in the most important race for Canadian-bred fillies, the Woodbine Oaks but back on turf won Woodbine's Canadian Breeders' Cup Handicap and was second in the prestigious Grade I Canadian International turf race to the Juddmonte Farms colt, Raintrap. Racing in the United States, Alywow finished second in the Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap, won the Lady Dean Stakes at Pimlico Race Course and under jockey Mike Smith, came from last to first to win a division of the 1994 Nijana Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Her 1994 performances earned Alywow three Sovereign Awards for Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly, Canadian Champion Turf Horse, and most prestigious of all, Canadian Horse of the Year.

Competing at age four in 1995, on the turf at Woodbine Racetrack Alywow ran second in the Sky Classic Handicp and won the Canadian Maturity Stakes. Retired to broodmare duty, Alywow produced a foal by Storm Cat in 1997 before being sold in 1998 while in foal to Mr. Prospector. Purchased by Pat O'Kelly's Kilcarn Stud near Navan in County Meath, Ireland, she produced two more foals, the first in 1999 from Danzig and another in 2000 by Sadler's Wells.

Alywow was seriously injured in an October 2001 accident when she crashed into a fence. Despite three operations, she never recovered and after a long struggle with an infected leg was humanely euthanized on March 2, 2002.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/alywow Alywow's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/breeding-news/2001/October/14/Canadian-champion-Alywow-seriously-injured-in-accident.aspx October 14, 2001"Thoroughbred Times" article titled "Canadian champion Alywow seriously injured in accident"]
* [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/international-news/2002/March/05/Canadian-champion-Alywow-dead-at-11.aspx March 5, 2002 "Thoroughbred Times" article on the death of Alywow]