Terlingua (February 7, 1976 – April 29, 2008) was an American thoroughbred bred in Kentucky by Tom Gentry.
Terlingua was a record-breaking stakes winner, and was also the dam of the two-time leading sire in North America, Storm Cat.
Terlingua was purchased by her trainer, Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, as a yearling in 1977 for $275,000 on behalf of L. R. French, who later partnered with Barry Beal.
She also broke one more stake record at 4, in the third running of the La Brea @ 7 furlongs, before she was retired at the end of that season to Overbrook Farms following an injury to her right front knee.
Terlingua brought Lukas so much attention he made the decision to become a full-time thoroughbred trainer.
At Storm Cat's height, he commanded a stud fee of (USD) $500,000; pensioned in 2008, he sired over 15 millionaires and many other stakes winners.
In 1984, Terlingua gave birth to another stakes winner, a chestnut filly by Northern Dancer named Chapel of Dreams.
[2] Progeny Record: Upon retirement in 2001, Terlingua was moved out into a pasture at the Young family's Overbrook Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, with a test mare named Ashley as a companion.
In significant honor to her brood-mare career, her lineage, and her racing descendants, she was buried in Overbrook's horse cemetery.