Irish Linnet is an American

United States

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 Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

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

 filly

Filly

A filly is a young female horse too young to be called a mare. There are several specific definitions in use.*In most cases filly is a female horse under the age of four years old....

 racehorse who accomplished the very rare feat in Thoroughbred racing

Repeat winners of horse races

-Eight wins:-Seven wins:-Six wins:* The Race Around Yorkshire Handicap was renamed the "Gods Solution Handicap" in 1990.-Five wins:Cheekio Ora won the Herefordshire Light Horse Breeding Society's Hunter Chase five times in the 1980s....

 of winning five consecutive editions of the same stakes race, doing it from 1991 through 1995. She was bred and raced by Austin Delaney, an Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 immigrant, who as a young man reportedly arrived in the United States with five shilling

Shilling

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s in his pocket and became a highly successful restaurateur.
Irish Linnet was sired by Seattle Song

Seattle Song

Seattle Song was a French Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1983 Prix de la Salamandre under American jockey Cash Asmussen and who visited the United States in October of 1984 where he won the prestigious Washington, D.C. International Stakes....

, a son of 1977 U. S. Triple Crown

United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

In the United States, the "Triple Crown" is usually the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, a series of three Thoroughbred horse races for three-year-old horses run in May and early June of each year consisting of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.While Daily Racing Form...

 champion, Seattle Slew

Seattle Slew

Seattle Slew was an American Thoroughbred race horse who won the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977, the tenth of eleven horses to accomplish the feat. He remains the only horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S...

, and out of the mare Royal Slip.

In her final year of racing in 1995, Irish Linnet won the biggest race of her career, taking the Grade II

Graded stakes race

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 New York Handicap. She capped off her career with her fifth straight win in the Yaddo Handicap

Yaddo Handicap

The Yaddo Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the third week of August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The mile and an eight race on turf is open to fillies and mares, age three and older that were bred in the state of New York.The race was...

 as well as her second straight victory in the Noble Damsel Handicap at Belmont Park

Belmont Park

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Retired to broodmare duty after her 1995 racing season, Irish Linnet has produced eight foals. Among others, she was bred to top sire

Sire

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s such as Giant's Causeway

Giant's Causeway (horse)

Giant's Causeway is a Kentucky-bred thoroughbred racehorse who competed primarily in Europe. In 2000, he won five straight Group One races. His performance that year earned him European Horse of the Year honors....

, Rahy

Rahy

Rahy was an Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in England and the United States. Bred by Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Lexington, he was a son of the very important sire Blushing Groom and out of the Eclipse Award winner and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame mare, Glorious Song.Rahy was purchased as a...

, Red Ransom

Red Ransom

Red Ransom is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. In his 2006 book Designing Speed in the Racehorse, author Ken McLean wrote that Red Ransom "was a sensationally fast juvenile."...

 and Seeking The Gold

Seeking The Gold

Seeking The Gold is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by the leading stud, Mr. Prospector, who in turn was a son of Raise a Native, out of the mare, Con Game....

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