Landaluce

By Mary Perdue,

Book cover of Landaluce: The Story of Seattle Slew's First Champion

Book description

For a few months in 1982, Landaluce was a national celebrity. In her second start, just one week after claiming her maiden, the two-year-old filly won the Hollywood Lassie Stakes by 21 lengths
face=Calibri>- a margin of victory that remains the largest ever in any race by a two-year-old at…

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I have read several excellent Thoroughbred biographies released within the last year, but none that moved me more than Landaluce.

Aside from being a compelling and richly written story about an amazing young racehorse who touched many lives even as her own life was cut short too soon, the book is also the story of a unique love affair between Landaluce and trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who found in his champion filly both the horse and the heartbreak of a lifetime.

Not many horse books have moved me to tears since I became an adult; this one did.  

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