Triptych (horse)

Triptych (1982–1989) was an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse who won multiple top-class races over five seasons in three European countries.

Triptych was a dark bay mare bred in Kentucky by Nelson Bunker Hunt & Edward L. Stevenson.

Her first big win came in the 1984 Prix Marcel Boussac, when she was trained by David Smaga in France, but she moved to David O'Brien in Ireland for her second season when she became the first filly to win the Irish 2,000 Guineas at the Curragh, was runner-up in The Oaks to Oh So Sharp and third to Commanche Run and Oh So Sharp in the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup (now the International Stakes) at York.

At age four in 1986, Triptych won the Champion Stakes and La Coupe, by which time she had joined Patrick Biancone.

She was sent to race in the United States, where she made one start at Churchill Downs in Kentucky and was then retired to broodmare duty on November 7, 1988.