PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah Update: Landaluce, Wong, Gaubas battle for qualification Rocha, Basavareddy in contention October 29, 2024 Getty Images/ATP Tour Martin Landaluce is eighth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah. By Sam Jacot Spaniard Martin Landaluce made his mark in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah nine days ago when he leaped to eighth after he won his…

La región de la caza

En Sologne, región que se confunde en el Valle del Loira (ya saben, los castillos) hay un cartel que anuncia al visitante que está en la región de la chasse (la caza). Aparecen dibujados un pato, un venado y un jabalí. En las carnicerías y en los restaurantes se nota. La gente hace sus salchichas de carne de caza, estofa la liebre y el corzo y hace a la plancha, vuelta y vuelta, los magrés. Como…

Grade 1 Winner, Undefeated Eclipse Champion Two-Year-Old Filly

Landaluce was but a shooting star, dazzling us with her brilliance before fading away far too quickly.  She debuted for legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas in a 6-furlong Maiden Special Weight, winning in a time of 1:08 1/5 and by 7 lengths.  Lukas wheeled her back fast, entering her in the 6-furlong Hollywood Lassie 7 days later.  She won by 21 lengths in a smashing time of 1:08.  Her margin of victory remains the largest by any 2-year-old at Hollywood Park.  Her time remains the fastest for any 2-year-old filly in a one-turn, 6 furlong race.

Landaluce went on to win 3 more races, culminating her career with a Grade 1 win in the Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita.  She was then being pointed to the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet Stakes but became ill 6 days prior.  Stricken with Colitis X, a disease that almost killed her sire, Landaluce continued to grow weaker from blood clots formed by a severe bacterial invasion.

Unable to fight any longer, Landaluce died in her trainer's arms on December 11, 1982.  She was posthumously awarded the Eclipse award for Champion 2-year-old filly.

The Hollywood Lassie Stakes was renamed the Landaluce Stakes in her honor, and she was buried in the infield at Hollywood Park.

The tragic heroines 

Dark Mirage, Go For Wand, Landaluce, Ruffian, Eight Belles, and Lamb Chop

Landaluce

Daughter of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew

1982 US Champion 3-Year-Old Filly

Holds records both for time and winning margin for a juvenile filly

Landaluce became ill with the virus Colitis X, which had nearly killed her father

Died December 11, 1982, aged 2 years