The incredible tale of the Arc heroine who changed lives and racing forever

Every part of this perfectly true story appears improbable and is much the better for it.

The beginning, the middle and the end are all as wonderfully unlikely as each other, yet as new postscript chapters continue to be written, there is not really an end at all. The legacy of what Urban Sea achieved on an October afternoon 25 years ago lives on to this very day.

There has surely never been a more successful broodmare than the horse who in 1993 fought valiantly under Eric Saint-Martin to land the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Through her children and her children's children she has left an indelible stamp on the sport, her name present in the pedigrees of countless superstars.