1. Danehill Dancer was a bay horse bred by L K and K McCreery and foaled on 20 January 1993.
21 Facts About Danehill Dancer
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Danehill Dancer was sired by Danehill, who won the Haydock Sprint Cup in 1989.
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Danehill Dancer's dam is Mira Adonde, a daughter of Sharpen Up.
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Danehill Dancer, who stood 15.3 hands high, was put up for auction at the Goffs sale in October 1994.
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Danehill Dancer was bought by for 38,000 Irish pounds by the bloodstock agent Dermot "Demi" O'Byrne on behalf of Michael Tabor and put into training with Neville Callaghan at Newmarket.
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Danehill Dancer made his racecourse debut on 13 July 1995 in a six-furlong maiden race at Newmarket, where he was ridden by Pat Eddery and won the race by one length from Raheen.
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Danehill Dancer then raced at the top level, when one month later he contested the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.
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Danehill Dancer drifted right in the penultimate furlong, but as they entered the final furlong he took the lead and ran on to win the race, beating the runner-up Polaris Flight by.
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Danehill Dancer made his first racecourse appearance as a three-year-old on 20 April 1996 in the Greenham Stakes.
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On 4 May, Danehill Dancer was one of thirteen colts to contest the 2000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket.
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Eight days later, Danehill Dancer finished ninth out of the ten runners in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains.
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Danehill Dancer was an outsider in the betting for the Prix Maurice de Gheest, for which Anabaa started as a short-price favourite.
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Danehill Dancer was ridden by Ray Cochrane for the only time in his career, who positioned him at the back of the pack.
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Danehill Dancer then traveled to Australia to stand as a stallion for Coolmore during the 1997 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
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Danehill Dancer sired three Group 1 winners from his 1999 foals.
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Danehill Dancer did not produce any horses that scored at the top level for a few seasons until Speciosa in 2003.
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Danehill Dancer earned the title of champion sire of Great Britain and Ireland in 2009.
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In 2010 Danehill Dancer was one of Europe's four most expensive sires.
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Danehill Dancer did not get any mares in foal during 2014, and was retired from stud duty.
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Danehill Dancer was euthanised in March 2017 at the age of 24 "due to the infirmities of old age".
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At least three of Danehill Dancer's sons have sired Group 1 winners:.