The only other trainer to win three Million crowns was Charlie Whittingham, who did so in 1982 with Perrault, in 1986 with
Estrapade, and in 1990 with Golden Pheasant.
Fondee rue de l'
Estrapade derriere le Pantheon (1) par M.
As Wollaeger points out, Hirsch's torture and murder by
estrapade (11) is clearly connected to Decoud's torture and suicide on the Great Isabel via "solitude" and "silence" (which torment Decoud "like a tense, thin cord to which he hung suspended by both hands, without fear, without surprise, without any sort of emotion whatever" [Nostromo 488]).
Four female stars who lit up the 1980s THE most distinguished Flat horses to die in 2005 were Pebbles, All Along, Time Charter and
Estrapade - four female champions of the 1980s who regularly beat top-class colts.
ESTRAPADE, champion turf mare in 1986 and the only female to win the Grade 1 Arlington Million, died from an apparent heart attack at Hill `n' Dale Farm, Kentucky on Friday morning.
grand-daughter of outstanding turf mare
Estrapade, who is also grand-dam of this year's Pouliches third Miss Mambo (by Kingmambo, like Smart Strike by Mr Prospector).
No mare has won that ten-furlong grass feature since
Estrapade in 1986, but who would care to bet against Ipi Tombe defying history again?