Marshua

Marshua (foaled March 19, 1962) was a multi Graded stakes winning American Thoroughbred racemare bred and raced by Helene D. Gilroy, a partner with her husband in the Missouri based Interstate Gas Corporation.

The highlight of that season was her victory in the prestigious Selima Stakes at Laurel Park Racecorse in Maryland.

[1] Having led all the way around the 1-1/16 mile event, she battled Queen Empress through the stretch to win by a fading neck.

[2] [1] At age three, Marshua ran second in the Acorn Stakes and won the filly classic Coaching Club American Oaks.

[1] In 1987, Laurel Park Racecourse named a race in her honor: the six-furlong Marshua Stakes run every February.