Ginevra (horse)

She was prone to escaping from her paddock and once jumped the fence three days before the running of the Oaks to graze on a nearby carriageway.

[7] She won a minor race at Newmarket Racecourse in early June[4] and finished third to Padrona in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at the same course later that month.

[4][10] Ginevra began her second season by finishing unplaced in a handicap race but then won the Ladbrokes Oaks Trial at Lingfield Park in May 1972.

[11] On 10 June, Ginevra started in the Oaks Stakes at 8-1 odds, the race favourite being Arkadina (the future dam of Irish St. Leger winner Dark Lomond).

She finished third to Attica Meli in the Yorkshire Oaks in August and then took third place behind the colts Boucher and Our Mirage in the St Leger Stakes at Doncaster Racecourse in September.

[13] Ginevra was retired from racing at the end of her three-year-old season and was sold to a Japanese breeding syndicate for 106,000 guineas at the December Sales.