She was named by her French-Canadian owner Jean-Louis Levesque[1] for the title character of a popular children's television show on the French-language division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Office Queen won the rival Daily Racing Form poll[2] in the last year that champions were voted on separately.
[3] At the end of her three-year-old racing season, Fanfreluche was sold as a broodmare prospect to prominent American horseman Bertram R. Firestone for a then world-record price of $1.3 million.
Bred to notable stallion Buckpasser, in 1972 she produced the two-time Canadian Horse of the Year and Hall of Fame inductee L'Enjoleur.
[5] In December, five months after her disappearance, the FBI located her 158 miles south near the small town of Tompkinsville, not far from the Tennessee border.