Franfreluche was a Canadian-bred Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
she was owned and bred by J. Louis Lévesque and trained by Yonnie Starr.
When she was 2 she raced in Canada, at age three Fanfreluche's performances in both Canada and the United States earned her the Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Filly and the Sovereign Award for Canadian Horse of the Year. After winning many other races and earning over $238,688 in winnings she was sold as a broodmare(mare used to breed foals only)to American horseman Bertram R. Firestone for a then world-record price of $1.3 million. Bred to the famous stallion stallion Buckpasser, in 1972 she produced the two-time Canadian Horse of the Year L'Enjoleur.
While carrying one of her foals while staying in claiborn farm, Kentucky in 1977, she was abducted.
In December. five months after her disappearance, the FBI found her 158 miles south near the small town of Tompkinsville. Fanfreluche was being kept by a family who said they had found her wandering along the country road.She was Returned safely to Claiborne Farm, in the spring of 1978. this abduction happened only a few years before shergars.
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