L'Abbesse de Jouarre

A versatile racehorse, L'Abbesse was able to win major races at distances ranging from six furlongs to one-and-a-half miles.

[8] Lady Randolph described L'Abbesse de Jouarre, nicknamed "Abscess on the Jaw"[7] during her racing career, as a small, "beautiful black mare" with a "heart bigger than her body".

[10] L'Abbesse de Jouarre earned the nickname "Abscess on the Jaw" during her racing career, owing to the difficulty the public and bookmakers had in pronouncing her name correctly,[11] leading her to be associated with the phonetically similar phrase.

[13] The Churchills did not witness L'Abbesse win the race; Lord Randolph was fishing in Norway at the time, and his wife was boating on the Thames when she heard that the "Abscess on the Jaw" had won.

[17] L'Abbesse was second in the Gold Vase in June at Ascot, losing to Tyrant, a horse owned by A.M. Singer "of sewing machine notoriety".

[13] Lord Randolph Churchill retained an interest in L'Abbesse until June 1894, when illness and strained finances forced him to sell his share to the Earl of Dunraven.

[22] L'Abbesse de Jouarre's 1893 filly foal, Festa, sired by St. Simon, was exported to Germany and became a broodmare in Baron Arthur von Weinberg's stud.

Festa "became one of the most important mares in German breeding history",[23] producing the good racehorses Festina, Fels, Fabula, Faust and Furor, whose combined race earnings were almost 1,500,000 marks.