Flying Water
| Flying Water | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Habitat | 
| Grandsire | Sir Gaylord | 
| Dam | Formentera | 
| Damsire | Ribot | 
| Sex | Mare | 
| Foaled | 8 April 1973 | 
| Country | France | 
| Colour | Chestnut | 
| Breeder | Dayton Ltd | 
| Owner | Daniel Wildenstein | 
| Trainer | Angel Penna Sr. | 
| Record | 11: 6-0-0 | 
| Major wins | |
| Nell Gwyn Stakes (1976) 1000 Guineas (1976) Prix Maurice de Gheest (1977) Prix Jacques Le Marois (1977) Champion Stakes (1977)  | |
| Honours | |
| Top-rated older female in Europe (1977) Timeform rating: 132  | |
Flying Water (8 April 1973 – 25 June 1978) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career that was disrupted by injury, she ran eleven times and won six races between July 1975 and June 1978. After winning her only race as a two-year-old, she won the Classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse in the spring of 1977. Having missed the second half of her three-year-old season through injury, she returned in 1978. She defeated leading sprinters in the Prix Maurice de Gheest, mile specialists in the Prix Jacques Le Marois, and middle-distances horses in the Champion Stakes. In 1978, she was sent to race in the United States where she was killed in an accident in a race at Belmont Park on 25 June.