"I had used the long train ride to study the form in Paris-Turf, the French racing daily. Try as I might, it was impossible to find anything that might beat Miesque in the Jacques Le Marois, which would be her first try against older horses. In the paddock she looked impeccable ..."

Freddie Head pays tribute to the champion mare.

"Miesque, the first two-time winner of a Breeders’ Cup race and the dam of major sire Kingmambo, was euthanized on Thursday at age 27 as a pensioned broodmare due to the infirmities of old age at the Oak Tree Division of Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky."