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Providential (February 6 1977 – May 1998) was an Irish-born Thoroughbred racehorse who competed successfully in France and won the most important race on turf in the United States. Bred and raced by Bertram R. Firestone he was sired by Run the Gantlet the 1971 American Champion Male Turf Horse and a son of Tom Rolfe the 1965 Preakness Stakes winner and American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse.