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Danzig (horse)

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Grandsire
  
Nearctic (CAN)

Country
  
United States

Record
  
3: 3–0–0

Damsire
  
Admiral's Voyage

Earnings
  
32,400 USD

Sex
  
Stallion

Foaled
  
1977

Colour
  
Parents
  
Northern Dancer

Trainer
  
Danzig (horse) DANZIG SETTING RECORDS Summerhill Stud

Breeder
  
Derry Meeting Farm & William S. Farish III

Danzig (February 12, 1977 – January 4, 2006) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is best known as a leading sire. He was purchased for $310,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2016) by Henryk de Kwiatkowski at the 1978 Saratoga Yearling Sale. The son of Hall of Famer Northern Dancer and the most important sire of the second half of the 20th century, he won all three of his races before knee problems ended his racing career.

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Stud record

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Danzig was retired to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky, where he became one of the world's most important sires. He led the U.S. sires list from 1991 to 1993 and topped the sire list in Spain and the United Arab Emirates.

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Danzig sired 188 graded stakes race winners and 10 champions. His foals have earned more than $100 million in purse money and include Breeders' Cup winners Chief's Crown, Lure, Dance Smartly, and War Chant as well as the European champions Dayjur and Anabaa. Danzig also sired 1992 Preakness Stakes winner Pine Bluff, and is the sire of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Langfuhr who, in turn, sired the Canadian Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year, Wando.

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A leading sire of sires, Danzig's son Danehill is the first Thoroughbred in history to sire 300 stakes winners, while another son Green Desert has champions Oasis Dream, Ouija Board, Sea The Stars, and Kingman amongst his male-line descendants. Danzig was also the damsire of Fusaichi Pegasus and Dancethruthedawn. He was the grandsire of 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown. His son Hard Spun finished second in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, behind Street Sense.

Danzig and his son, Danehill, were dominant bay sires along with another 17 of Danzig's sons: they would not produce chestnut progeny and only a grey if the foal's dam was grey.

He was pensioned at 27 in 2004 and on January 3, 2006 was humanely euthanized due to the infirmities of old age. He was buried at Claiborne Farm's equine cemetery.

At maturity, he reached 15.3 hands (63 inches, 160 cm) high.

References

Danzig (horse) Wikipedia