Manila (horse)

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Manila
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Sire:	Lyphard
Grandsire:	Northern Dancer
Dam:	Dona Ysidra
Damsire:	Le Fabuleux
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1983
Country:	United States
Colour:	Bay
Breeder:	Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr.
Owner:	Bradley M. Shannon
Trainer:	LeRoy Jolley
Record:	18: 12-5-0
Earnings:	$2,692,799
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Lexington Handicap (1986) Cinema Handicap (1986) Turf Classic Handicap (1986) Breeders' Cup Turf (1986) United Nations Handicap (1986 & 1987) Turf Classic Stakes (1987) Arlington Million (1987)
Racing Awards
U.S. Champion Male Turf Horse (1986)
Infobox last updated on: February 2, 2007.

Manila (born 1983 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. He was sired by Northern Dancer's son Lyphard, out of the mare Dona Ysidra. He was bred by Filipino food and beverage magnate Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr. who owned Dona Ysidra and who named her for his grandfather's sister, Dona Ysidra Cojuangco (1867-1960) of Tarlac, reportedly the foundress of the Cojuangco family fortune.

Manila was raced by Lexington, Kentucky thoroughbred agent, Bradley M. Shannon and trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, LeRoy Jolley. Considered a very great long-distance turf horse, from his fourteen starts on grass Manila never finished any worse than second. In his 2006 book titled THE BEST and Worst of Thoroughbred Racing, author Steve Davidowitz of Daily Racing Form ranks Manila as the best long-distance turf horse in American racing history ahead of No.2, John Henry.

Racing at age three, Manila won the important Grade I Turf Classic Handicap then in the fall won the Breeders' Cup Turf, defeating the Champion filly, Estrapade, Theatrical, and the 1986 European Horse of the Year, Dancing Brave. For his 1986 performances, Manila was voted the United States' Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse.

In 1987, Manila repeated as the United Nations Handicap winner and defeated Theatrical again to win the Arlington Million. Injured in the fall, he was retired to stud duty, having been syndicated for US$20 million.

Although Manila has been reasonably successful as a sire, producing the California multiple graded stakes race winner Bien Bien, none of his offspring have achieved his same level of success. He currently stands at stud in Turkey.