Saoirse

Saoirse is the Irish language word for "freedom" and may refer to:

Saoirse (horse)

Saoirse (foaled 1996 in Ontario) is a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background

Bred and raced by Steve Stavro's Knob Hill Stable, her Gaelic name means "freedom, Liberty or Holiday" (though there is no official direct translation of the name) and is pronounced "Seer sha"

Saoirse was sired by 1980 Laurel Futurity Stakes winner, Cure the Blues. Her dam was Apelia, the 1993 Canadian Champion Sprint Horse who won the award at a time when it was a single honor for horses of either sex.

She was trained by Phil England from a base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto,

Racing career

Saoirse did not race at age two. On April 10, 1999, the then three-year-old filly made an impressive racing debut at Woodbine with an 18¾ length win in a maiden race for three and four-year-old fillies. During the remainder of the year, Saoirse's best stakes result racing at age three was a second in the Jammed Lovely Stakes but on October 16 she won a race in which she equaled the Woodbine track record for 6.5 furlongs with a clocking of 1:14:78.

Irish Freedom

Irish Freedom was launched in November 1910, as an Irish monthly publication of the Irish Republican Brotherhood movement. It lasted for four years until suppressed in 1914 by the British.

The name Irish Freedom was later to resurface as Saoirse Irish Freedom in May 1987 after the Republican Bulletin, the official paper of the Republican Sinn Féin, changed its name.

Notable contributors

Contributors included:

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