Dancer's Daughter Retires

A real pity about this one, should never have gone to Gauteng.

Very sad, high expectations

And who's she going to?

Going to the son of Danzig , Antonius Pius ( ex- Coolmore.)
Her own bloodline is nothing special though.

David Thiselton
Dancer’s Daughter is virtually certain to be retired from the racetrack and will shortly be sent to the new Graham Beck-owned stallion Antonius Pius, who has just begun his first season at Highlands.
Dancer’s Daughter, trained by Justin Snaith, is one of the best fillies to ever race in this country, winning five Grade 1 races including the country’s premier race, the Vodacom Durban July, in which she dead-heated with the three-times South African Horse Of the Year, Pocket Power.
Unfortunately the powerful grey, whose love of galloping was evident whenever she ran, attained an injury in training during her Johannesburg campaign earlier this year, having just won the Grade 1 Empress Club Stakes at Turffontein when being cared for by the Geoff Woodruff yard.
She subsequently missed the whole of the Kwazulu-Natal Champion’s Season, although an effort was made to overcome her injury and get her to peak fitness from Snaith’s winter satellite yard at Clairwood.
Dancer’s Daughter was bred in Great Britain and was a daughter of the unfashionable sire, Act One.
Owner, Graham Beck, brought her over to South Africa with his overseas draught and Chris Snaith selected her to be trained by his son, Justin.
Justin said yesterday that it had been decided by the connections that it was too risky for Dancer’s Daughter to continue with her racing career.
However, if there are any complications in her stud career, she could still return to the racetrack.
In all Dancer’s Daughter raced 18 times for eleven wins.
Her only unplaced run came in the Grade 1 SA Fillies Sprint, but she followed that up with the two races that stamped her greatness, winning the Grade 1 Weight For Age Gold Challenge over 1600m at Clairwood, defeating Pocket Power, before dead-heating with him in the July over 2200m.
Antonius Pius formerly stood at the world’s leading stud, Coolmore of Ireland. The son of Danzig was retired to stud in 2006 and is currently among the leading freshman sires in Britain, having had eleven individual winners of 13 races.
In his racing career he won a Group 2 as a two-year-old over six furlongs before becoming a high-class miler, placing in three Group 1’s over that distance.

Thanks and its logical.

I remember when they sent ZARKAVA to stud, 7 from 7 including 5 group ones, and the ARC as a three year old! We could have seen much more?

The logic was to breed and find the perfect horse?

My logic was that they had the perfect horse, so why not let us all enjoy it for another year, and then at 5 retire her as a Mare.

Anyone have an update on the off spring.

I know she was sent to Dalakhani, but not sure when the foal was due??? That could be a match made in heaven