Eva Luna

Eva Luna (IRE) (28 February 1992 – after 2010) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. At the age of two in 1994 she was one of the best horses of her generation in Ireland when she won her first five races including the Silver Flash Stakes, Railway Stakes and Phoenix Stakes. Her winning run came to an end when she finished third in the Moyglare Stud Stakes, and in 1993 she failed to recapture her juvenile form. After her retirement from racing she became a broodmare and produced a few minor winners. The last of her recorded offspring was foaled in 2010. Background Eva Luna was a bay mare bred in Ireland by David Shubotham. She began her racing career in the ownership of Catherine Shubotham and was trained by Jim Bolger at Coolcullen, County Carlow. She was ridden in all of her races by her trainer's son-in-law Kevin Manning. She was probably the best horse sired by Double Schwartz, a sprinter who won the Prix de l'Abbaye, Diadem Stakes, Temple Stakes and Palace House Stakes as a five-year-old in 1986. Eva Luna's dam Guess Again was a German-bred mare who showed modest racing ability, winning one minor race and placing ten times from seventeen starts. She was a granddaughter of Fanghorn (foaled 1966) who finished third in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. As a broodmare Fanghorn produced Double Form (sire of Double Schwartz) and was the female-line ancestor of Soldier of Fortune. Two high-class fillies named Eva Luna were foaled in 1992. The other Eva Luna was an American-bred mare who won the Park Hill Stakes and went on to produce the St Leger winner Brian Boru. The two horses may be distinguished by their national suffixes: Eva Luna (IRE) and Eva Luna (USA).