Leo Tolstoy

Literary references are not rare in horse racing, and 2yo winner Bold Mistress (Vronsky--Common Truth) carries a precious such connection, linked to the GOAT (probably) writer Lev Tolstoy. Unhappily married Anna Karenina is in fact the absolutely bold mistress of Count Vronsky in the Russian novelist's book of the same name. "Many writers consider 'Anna Karenina' the greatest work of literature ever and the author himself called it his first true novel," states Wikipedia--and only a few years before Tolstoy had written "War and Peace," which I personally prefer (reading...