Lillie Langtry (horse)

She was retired at the end of the year with a record of five wins from eleven races and has become a successful broodmare, producing three Classic race-winning daughters.

Lillie Langtry is a dark bay or brown mare with a small white star and bred in Ireland by Kevin Lynch.

After racing in fifth place, she took the lead a furlong from the finish and drew away in the closing stages to beat Kitty Kiernan "comfortably"[7] by two and a half lengths.

[10] On her final appearance of the season, Lillie Langtry was sent to California and started favourite for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita Park.

It was subsequently announced that the filly had suffered a fractured knee in the race and would face a lengthy lay-off after an operation to insert a pin into the damaged joint.

Murtagh settled Lillie Langtry in mid-division as Gile Na Greine set a steady pace before moving up to challenge the leader in the straight.

Lillie Langtry took the lead a furlong out and won by one and quarter lengths from Gile Na Greine with Jacqueline Quest in third place.

After reaching second place in the last quarter mile she faded in the closing stages and finished fifth of the eight runners behind Music Show, who won by a neck from the five-year-old mare Spacious.

She started at odds of 7/2 third favourite behind Music Show and Spacious, with the other runners being Bethrah, Gile Na Greine and Hen Night (winner of the listed Platinum Stakes at Cork Racecourse).

She made a sustained run in the straight, overtook Spacious in the final strides and won by a neck, with Music Show in a length and a quarter away in third.

[16] Although her trainer suggested that Lillie Langtry would be aimed at contests such as the Prix de l'Opéra, the filly was retired at the end of the season.

[17] A full-sister, Minding, finished second on her debut in June 2015 and went on to win the Moyglare Stud Stakes, the Fillies' Mile, the 2016 1000 Guineas and Oaks.