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16-414: Danehill may refer to: Danehill (horse) Danehill, East Sussex See also [ edit ] Dane Hills , Leicester, England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Danehill . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

32-422: A grey if the foal's dam was grey. On 13 May 2003, Danehill died in a paddock accident at Coolmore Stud. He was being hand-led in his paddock when he reared playfully and landed awkwardly, breaking a hip. Even with some of the world's best veterinary practitioners on hand, it was decided there was no alternative but to put the horse down. Coolmore received £36 million from their insurance upon his death. Danehill

48-1020: A local G1 in Japan but neither was a race listed in Part 1 of the International Cataloguing Standards, which means they counted for listed status only. His total of 84 International G1 winners was a world record until June 2020 when Peaceful won the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas in Ireland, thereby making her a new world-record 85th G1 winner for her sire, Galileo. Danehill was the sire of 2,485 foals, of which 347 were black-type winners (209 Group winners and 138 Listed winners). Danehill's last foal crop, which comprised 96 live foals, were born in 2004. Danzig and his son, Danehill, were dominant bay sires along with Danehill's sons. This meant that they would not produce chestnut progeny and only

64-459: A shuttle stallion in 1990. At the end of the stud season, he returned to Coolmore Stud in Ireland. He was an immediate sensation at stud in Australia, where he was leading sire on many occasions. Danehill returned to Australia ten more times and also served one season at stud in Japan during 1996. With his appeal to European breeders, he became the first high-profile shuttle stallion, standing

80-530: Is inbred 3 x 3 to Natalma. This means that Danehill is inbred 4 x 4 to both Native Dancer and Almahmoud . Goodwood Racecourse Goodwood Racecourse is a horse-racing track five miles north of Chichester , West Sussex , in England controlled by the family of the Duke of Richmond , whose seat is nearby Goodwood House . It hosts the annual Glorious Goodwood meeting in late July and early August, which

96-729: Is one of the highlights of the British flat racing calendar, and is home to three of the UK's 36 annual Group 1 flat races, the Sussex Stakes , the Goodwood Cup and the Nassau Stakes . Although the race meeting has become known as 'Glorious Goodwood', it is sponsored by Qatar and officially called the 'Qatar Goodwood Festival'. It is considered to enjoy an attractive setting to the north of Trundle Iron Age hill fort, which

112-451: Is used as an informal grandstand with views of the whole course. One problem is that its proximity to the coast means that it can get foggy. This is an unusual, complex racecourse with a straight six furlongs—the "Stewards' Cup Course"—which is uphill for the first furlong and mostly downhill thereafter. There is a tight right-handed loop at the far end of the straight on which there are starts for various longer distance courses. These include

128-638: The Cork and Orrery Stakes at Ascot and the Haydock Sprint Cup . During his racing career he earned a total of £177,465 and ran to a peak Timeform rating of T126. Danehill retired to stud duties in 1990 at the Coolmore Stud in Ireland and made his greatest impact as a stallion . Sold by his owner under advice to the partnership of Arrowfield Stud of Scone, New South Wales , Australia, and Ireland's Coolmore Stud , he came to Australia as

144-635: The northern hemisphere covering season at Coolmore's Irish facility. Coolmore subsequently became his sole owner after a $ 24 million deal, making him the most valuable Thoroughbred in Australian breeding history. Danehill's success in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France was slow to develop as connections had convinced themselves the Danehill's required wet tracks and light work. After winning 3 Golden Slippers in his first 3 crops in Australia

160-408: The 1 mile 2 furlongs (1m 2f) "Craven Course", the 1m 4f "Gratwicke Course" and the 1m 6f "Bentinck Course". The start for the 2m 5f "Cup Course" is quite close to the winning post—horses travel outwards on the straight, around the loop and back. Throughout the loop there are severe undulations and sharp turns. The course is used for flat racing only. From 1968 to 1970 the course's late summer meeting

176-445: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danehill&oldid=355529548 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Danehill (horse) Danehill (26 March 1986 – 13 May 2003) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse who

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192-467: The late 18th century, Goodwood became the location for the first flag start on a British racecourse, at the behest of Lord George Bentinck , after a particularly shambolic start involving jockey Sam Arnull caused by an elderly deaf starter with a speech impediment. Its primary meeting, now known as "Glorious Goodwood", was established in 1802 and the important early handicap the Goodwood Stakes

208-1185: The opposite was proven true and Ballydoyle who had the majority of the NH Danehills adjusted their training methods which yielded Aidan Obriens first G1 success when Desert King, from the 4th crop of Danehill, won the G1 National Stakes for 2yos at The Curragh in 1996 under Walter Swinburn. Danehill's highest rated racehorses were: Rock Of Gibraltar (T133 achieved G1 Sussex Stakes Goodwood 2002) George Washington (T133 achieved QEII Stakes Ascot 2006) Dylan Thomas (T132 achieved G1 King George & Queen Elizabeth Stakes Ascot 2007) Duke Of Marmalade (T132 achieved Prince of Wales's Stakes G1 Ascot 2008) Mozart (T131 achieved July Cup G1 Newmarket The July Course 2001) Westerner (T130 achieved Gold Cup Ascot (at York ) 2005) c = colt , f = filly , g = gelding , n=northern hemisphere, s=southern hemisphere Also: Scintillation (3 × Hong Kong local G1), Fairy King Prawn (4 × Hong Kong local G1,1 x Japan G1). Fairy King Prawn won local G1 in Hong Kong and

224-478: Was a brother to a stakes winner, Eagle Eyed, and two other stallions, Anziyan and Nuclear Freeze. Danehill was owned during his racing career by Khalid Abdullah , who also bred him. Trained by Jeremy Tree , Danehill ran nine times, winning four. As a three-year-old, following a third placing in the 2,000 Guineas behind Nashwan and a fourth place in the Irish equivalent, Danehill was switched to sprinting, winning

240-471: Was shown on ITV , and from the early 2000s some races from the course occasionally appeared on Channel 4 , but otherwise the course had been covered exclusively by the BBC for 50 years from 1956 (when it first appeared on television) to 2006. In 2007 the rights passed to Channel 4 Racing . Since 2017 races have been live on ITV Racing after the channel won the rights to televise horse racing from Channel 4. In

256-550: Was the most successful sire of all time with 349 stakes winners and 89 Grade 1 winners. He was the leading sire in Australia nine times, the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland three times and the leading sire in France twice. Danehill was a bay stallion by leading sire Danzig (by Northern Dancer ) out of Razyana (by His Majesty). Danehill was inbred twice to Natalma in the third generation (3x3) of his pedigree. He

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