Gentildonna (race mare)

Gentildonna was part of Sunday Racing Co., Ltd., a company that owned horses such as Dream Journey, Buena Vista, and Orfevre.[5] She was trained by Sei Ishizaka of the Ritto Training Center, who, when his assistants Shingo Hisako and Taihei Inoue were impressed to see the filly training with extraordinary potential and effortlessly galloping with her high cardiopulmonary capacity.[6] Ishizaka thought that at two years old, the filly was ready to be like her parents in a race. Her sire was Deep Impact, who was the 2005 Japanese Triple Crown champion, sired by Wind of Her Hair and Sunday Silence, winner of all six G1 races in the United States, both of whom are inducted into the Hall of Fame. Her dam, Donna Blini, won two Group races in 2005: the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) and the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes (G2), and was sired by Bertolini out of Cal Norma's Lady.[3] Deep Impact and Donna Blini produced Gentildonna as the second of their pair's seven sisters, born on February 20, 2009, at Northern Farm in the Hokkaido town of Abira.[4] Her appearance was dun due to a forehead marking of a star.

Gentildonna (ジェンティルドンナ Jentirudonna?, February 20, 2009 - November 25, 2025) was a Japanese Thoroughbred mare who raced between 2011 and 2014 on the tracks of the Japan Racing Association, having a total of seven victories in first group races. Among the seven crowns she had, the first three were Triple Tiara of 2012, being the fourth champion overall, two were Japan Cup, being the first filly to win consecutively, and the last two were in 2014: The Dubai Sheema Classic foreign race, and the Arima Kinen Grand Prix.