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Dance Design Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
2005

Website
  
Curragh

Surface
  
Turf

Race type
  
Flat / Thoroughbred

Distance
  
1m 1f (1,811 metres)

Location
  
Curragh Racecourse Co. Kildare, Ireland

The Dance Design Fillies' Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Ireland open to thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three years or older. It is run at the Curragh over a distance of 1 mile and 1 furlong (1,811 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late August or early September.

The event was originally sponsored by Moyglare Stud and named after Dance Design, a successful Moyglare filly in the 1990s. It was established in 2005, and it was initially classed at Listed level. It was promoted to Group 3 status in 2009. In 2012 the race was sponsored by Lanwades Stud and run as the Lanwade Stud Fillies' Stakes. The 2014 running was sponsored by Xtravision and HMV in support of the Irish Autism Action charity. In 2016 the race was run as the Snow Fairy Fillies Stakes.

Records

Most successful horse:

  • no horse has won this race more than once
  • Leading jockey (2 wins):

  • Joseph O'Brien - Up (2012), Say (2013)
  • Pat Smullen - Chinese White (2009), Carla Bianca (2014)
  • Fran Berry - Bible Belt (2011), Bocca Baciata (2015)
  • Leading trainer (3 wins):

  • Aidan O'Brien - Up (2012), Say (2013), Somehow (2016)
  • References

    Dance Design Stakes Wikipedia