Peintre Celebre
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Peintre Celebre, (born 1994), is a champion thoroughbred racehorse.
Bred and owned by Daniel Wildenstein (1917-2001), the renowned French art dealer and highly successful horseman, Peintre Celebre came from a line of outstanding thoroughbreds. A son of Nureyev, France's champion miler in 1980, who was in turn the son of the great Northern Dancer, Trained by André Fabre, Peintre Celebre was sparsely raced as a two year old, entering only two races, winning one and finishing third in the other.
In 1997, at age three, the horse began to show his greatness on the racetrack, winning the French Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris before facing the best horses in Europe in France's most prestigious race, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Ridden by jockey Oliver Peslier, the powerful horse ran away from the field, winning the 1 1/2-mile race by five lengths and breaking the track speed record by an astonishing 3.4 seconds. He raced only five times that year, winning four and finishing second by a neck in a race where he had been boxed in. Despite the limited number of races, he was named Europe's Horse of the Year and the International Classification rated him world champion that year.
Before the 1998 racing season, Peintre Celebre suffered a career-ending injury and was retired to breeding at the Coolmore Stud farm in Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland.
Adapted from the article Peintre Celebre (http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Peintre_Celebre), from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.