La Lorgnette (foaled 1982 in Ontario) is a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse. A giant sized filly at 17.1 hands, she was bred and raced by E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm. She was sired by the Val de l'Orne, a multiple stakes winner in France including the Group One Prix du Jockey Club. Val de L'Orne's sire was Val de Loir, the Leading sire in France for three straight years between 1973 and 1975. La Lorgnette's dam was The Temptress,...
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La Lorgnette (foaled 1982 in Ontario) is a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse. A giant sized filly at 17.1 hands, she was bred and raced by E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm. She was sired by the Val de l'Orne, a multiple stakes winner in France including the Group One Prix du Jockey Club. Val de L'Orne's sire was Val de Loir, the Leading sire in France for three straight years between 1973 and 1975. La Lorgnette's dam was The Temptress, a daughter of the 1970 British Triple Crown champion Nijinsky who was also bred at Windfields Farm.
Trained by Macdonald Benson, La Lorgnette raced at age two with her best result a win in the 1984 Natalma Stakes. The following year she won the Canadian Oaks then, up against her male counterparts, defeated race favorite Imperial Choice to win Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate. In the ensuing Prince of Wales Stakes at the Fort Erie Racetrack, the two horses reversed their position. For her 1985 performances, La Lorgnette was...
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