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Izvestia (horse)

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Sire
  
Icecapade

Dam
  
Shy Spirit

Foaled
  
1987

Species
  
Equus caballus

Parents
  
Icecapade

Earnings
  
2.703 million USD

Grandsire
  
Nearctic

Damsire
  
Personality

Country
  
Canada

Trainer
  
Roger Attfield

Sex
  
Stallion

Color
  
Gray

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Izvestia (May 5, 1987 – October 21, 1991) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Canadian Triple Crown in 1990. A descendant of Nearco, his damsire Personality was the 1970 Co-American Horse of the Year. Owned and bred by Kinghaven Farms, the colt began racing in the United States, winning two Graded stakes races at the Keeneland Race Course in Kentucky. He was shipped north in the spring of 1990 to a base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto from which he won the Triple Crown. Having won it a year earlier on With Approval, jockey Don Seymour became the only jockey in history to ride two Canadian Triple Crown winners.

Izvestia's career ended on October 21, 1991, when he had to be humanely euthanized after breaking a left hind leg in three places while competing in the Rothmans International. In 1999, he was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame

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Izvestia (horse) Wikipedia