Super Tassa (foaled 10 February 1996) is an Irish-bred, Italian-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for her upset win in the 2001 Yorkshire Oaks.
She reached her peak in 2001 when she won the Premio Carlo d'Alessio in Rome and ended her racing career by winning the Yorkshire Oaks in England at odds of 25/1.
[4] Super Tassa's dam Center Moriches was a moderate racehorse who won one minor race from ten attempts.
The filly raced throughout her career in the official ownership of Valiani although a majority share was sold to the art dealer Cyril Humphris after her second run.
On 11 October she was moved up in class for the Group Three Premio Dormello over the same course and distance and finished second of the eleven runners behind the British-trained Barafamy.
Ridden by Thierry Thulliez she raced in fourth place before taking the lead 200 metres out and held off the challenge of the odds-on favourite War Game by half a length.
[11] At Milan in June she finished third behind the British filly Sailing and the German-trained Dangerous Mind in the Premio Mario Incisa.
[12] In the Group One Gran Premio di Milano on 17 June, Super Tassa started at odds of 8.6/1 and stayed on strongly in the closing stages to finish third behind Paolini (later to win the Dubai Duty Free Stakes), and the British-trained favourite Ela Athena.
Super Tassa was sent to England for the first and only time when she was one of nine fillies and mares to contest the Group One Yorkshire Oaks on 22 August and was partnered by the British jockey Kevin Darley.
Super Tassa was held up by Darley in the early stages as first Mot Juste and then Snowflake set the pace before the Italian mare began to move forward half a mile from the finish.