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Condessa
Condessa (15 March 1978 – 2005) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. In two seasons of racing she was highly-tried, racing twenty-one times, winning five times and finishing second twice. As a two-year-old she won two minor races from eight attempts, but appeared to be well behind the best of her generation. In the following year she developed to become one of the best staying fillies of her generation in Europe, beating an exceptionally strong field in the Musidora Stakes at York Racecourse, finishing second in the Irish Oaks, and recording her biggest win at the same track when she won the Yorkshire Oaks. Her victories in 1981 were the first major successes for her trainer Jim Bolger. She was later transferred to the United States where she made no impact and was retired from racing at the end of the year. She has had some influence as a broodmare.
==Background==
Condessa was a "small, rather lightly-made"〔 〕 chestnut mare with a diamond-shaped white star bred in Ireland by D de Vere Hunt. She was from the first crop of foals sired by Condorcet, a French horse who won the Prix Omnium II in 1975 and the Prix Maurice de Nieuil in 1976.〔 〕 He was a representative of the Byerley Turk sire line, unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who descend directly from the Darley Arabian. As a breeding stallion he later became most successful as a sire of National Hunt horses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Condorcet - Stud Record )〕 Condessa's dam Varinessa made no impact as a racehorse, but was a half-sister of the Irish St Leger winner Allangrange. She was a great-granddaughter of the influential broodmare Carpet Slipper, whose other descendants have included Big Brown, Val de Loir, Petoski, Golan, North Light and St Jovite.
As a yearling Condessa was offered for sale at Goffs and was bought for 13,000 guineas by the then little-known Irish trainer Jim Bolger on behalf of Paddy Barrett.〔 Explaining how he came to buy the filly, Bolger said "A man I had bought a house from gave me 20k to buy a racehorse and I got Condessa for 13k at Goffs but for the life of me could not find another with the rest of the money so had to give him 7k back. That hurt".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jim Bolger profile )〕
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