Miss Finland (horse)

Miss Finland (16 February 2003 – 13 February 2026) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. She was a bay mare sired by Redoute's Choice out of Forest Pearl, who was a daughter of The Oaks winner Moonshell.

Miss Finland was trained by top South Australian trainer David Hayes. At the age of two years, she won the AAMI Golden Slipper, the world's richest juvenile race, which is run over 1,200 metres, and ran second in the Blue Diamond Stakes. As a three-year-old, her stellar form continued, which saw her win the Crown VRC Oaks, run over 2,500 metres at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival, as well as further Group One wins in the Thousand Guineas, Australian Guineas and Arrowfield Stud Stakes. She resumed as a four-year-old with a win in the Memsie Stakes, which was to be her only win in nine starts that season before retirement.

She comes from the Northern Dancer sire line and has a double cross of him in the fourth generation of her pedigree.^[1]

Miss Finland was named the "SPORTSMAN 2006 Horse of the Year".^[2] Upon retiring, she resided at Arrowfield Stud in the upper Hunter Region of New South Wales and produced 12 foals. She died from a chronic respiratory disease on the 13th of February 2026.^[3]

• Miss Finland's racing record