Paseana won Grade 1 races in Argentina before being sold at age four to Americans
Jenny & Sidney Craig, noted business personalities who founded the
weight loss company
Jenny Craig, Inc. Based in
California, future Hall of Fame inductee
Ron McAnally took over Paseana's conditioning. In 1991, Paseana began a seven-race win streak, of which five were Grade I races. After capturing the Grade I
Santa Margarita Handicap in 1992, she ran second in that race in each of the next three years. In 1992, she was a supplementary entry in the
Breeders' Cup Distaff at a cost of $200,000. Sent off by
bettors as the second choice to
Saratoga Dew, Paseana started from the difficult post position #14 at the far outside but won the most important race of her career by four lengths. Her 1992 performances earned her the
Eclipse Award for
American Champion Older Female Horse. In 1993, the six-year-old mare won two more Grade I races, capturing the
Apple Blossom Handicap and
Spinster Stakes, then finished second by a nose to
Hollywood Wildcat in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. Despite her loss in the Distaff, Paseana's 1993 performances earned her a second consecutive Eclipse Award for American Champion Older Female Horse. Racing at ages seven and eight, Paseana won the 1994
Chula Vista Handicap and the 1995
Hawthorne Handicap. She was retired after her 1995 campaign having won nineteen races, of which ten were Grade I events, and was sent to
Lane's End Farm in
Versailles, Kentucky. As a
broodmare, she experienced fertility problems. In 1998, her owners sent her to Argentina. There, in 2000, she gave birth to her only foal, named Paseana's Girl. On June 21, 2006, Paseana died at Haras San Ignacio de Loyola in Argentina following hemorrhaging due to a ruptured abdominal blood vessel. In 2001, Paseana was inducted into the
United States Racing Hall of Fame. ==See also==