Izvestia (horse)

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Izvestia (horse)

Izvestia (1987-1991) was a Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a list of horse breeds best known for its use in Thoroughbred horse race. Although the word "thoroughbred" is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed....
racehorse

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies....
who won the Canadian Triple Crown

Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Canadian Triple Crown is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races run annually in Canada which is open to three-year-old horses foaled in Canada....
in 1990. A descendant of Nearco

Nearco

Nearco was an Italy thoroughbred race horse by Pharos out of Nogara. A brown horse, he was bred by Federico Tesio, who also bred Ribot . One of the most important sires of the 20th century, he is the patriarch of the most dominant sire line in Thoroughbred history....
, his damsire Personality was the 1970 Co-American Horse of the Year. Owned and bred by Kinghaven Farms

Kinghaven Farms

Kinghaven Farms is a thoroughbred horse racing stable founded in 1967 by Donald G. Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, Ontario, north of Toronto, the success of the stable would see it expand to the United States with the acquisition of a farm and training center near Ocala, Florida....
, the colt began racing in the United States

United States

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, winning two Graded stakes race

Graded stakes race

A graded stakes race is a term applied by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to a Thoroughbred horse race in the United States to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay....
s at the Keeneland Race Course in Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a U.S. state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky is normally included in the group of Southern United States , but it is uncommonly included, geographically and culturally, in the Midwestern United States....
. He was shipped north in the spring of 1990 to a base at Woodbine Racetrack

Woodbine Racetrack

Woodbine Racetrack is a Canadian racetrack for Thoroughbred horse races located at 555 Rexdale Blvd. in the city of Toronto, Ontario. It is the only horseracing track in North America which stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred horse and standardbred horse horseracing programs on the same day....
in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
from where he won the Triple Crown. Having won it a year earlier on With Approval

With Approval

With Approval is a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1989 under jockey Don Seymour....
, jockey Don Seymour

Don Seymour

Donald J. Seymour is a Canada jockey in Thoroughbred horse race who is the only jockey in history to win two Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing....
became the only jockey in history to ride two Canadian Triple Crown winners.

Izvestia's career came to a tragic end 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

Canadian International Stakes

The Canadian International Stakes is a $2 million Graded stakes race Canada stakes race on Sod for thoroughbred racehorses three years of age and up held annually in October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario....
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