Coolmore Handbook 2017

GR.1 WINNERS BY HIS SIRE DANEHILL DANCER INCLUDE: NAME SIRE OF DAM SIRE OF 2ND DAM GRADE AGAIN Kahyasi Top Ville Gr.1 ALEXANDER TANGO Woodman Riverman Gr.1 ALFRED NOBEL Desert Prince Warning Gr.1 AVE In e Wings Ela-Mana-Mou Gr.1 CHOISIR Lunchtime Biscay Gr.1 DANCING RAIN Indian Ridge Alleged Gr.1 ESOTERIQUE Dancing Brave High Line Gr.1 HILLSTAR Mark of Esteem Be My Guest Gr.1 LEGATISSIMO Montjeu Shirley Heights Gr.1 LILLIE LANGTRY Darshaan Shadeed Gr.1 MASTERCRAFTSMAN Black Tie Affair Lyphard Gr.1 MISS BEATRIX Catrail Horage Gr.1 PLANTEUR Giant's Causeway Lear Fan Gr.1 QEMAH Rainbow Quest Night Shi Gr.1 SPECIOSA Sky Classic Alleged Gr.1 WHERE OR WHEN Super Concorde Sheshoon Gr.1 MATING SUGGESTIONS: Mastercraftsman could hardly have made a brighter start to his stallion career, with his first crop producing the highly talented colts The Grey Gatsby, Kingston Hill and Amazing Maria. His total of first-crop Group winners stands at an impressive nine from a crop of 138. That is 6.5% Group winners to foals. Several of his Group winners are out of mares from the SADLER’S WELLS line. Even Song has a dam by SADLER’S WELLS , while ENTREPRENEUR sired the dam of The Grey Gatsby, IN THE WINGS the dam of Master Carpenter and SINGSPIEL the dam of Victoria Regina. This ties in with the record of Mastercraftsman’s sire Danehill Dancer, who sired Group winners from mares by SADLER’S WELLS and by six of his sons. Danehill Dancer enjoyed plenty of success with the BLUSHING GROOM line, siring Group winners from daughters of ARAZI , NASHWAN , RAHY (2) and RAINBOW QUEST (2). One of the RAINBOW QUEST mares produced 2016 Gr.1 winner Qemah. It is therefore significant that Kingston Hill is out of a RAINBOW QUEST mare, as is Mastercraftsman’s Group-placed son Restorer, and he sired the Gr.3 winner Dessertoflife from a mare by Rainbow Quest’s son SPECTRUM . Mastercraftsman clearly merits more mares with BLUSHING GROOM blood. The STORM BIRD line is important to Mastercraftsman, already siring dual Gr.1 winner Amazing Maria and a Listed winner from daughters of TALE OF THE CAT , plus the Gr.3 winner Craftsman from a FOREST WILDCAT mare. Danehill Dancer sired Gr.1 winner Miss Beatrix from a CATRAIL mare and Planteur from a GIANT’S CAUSEWAY mare. Danehill Dancer has Gr.2 and Gr.3 winners inbred 3x3 to SHARPEN UP and others inbred 3x4 to him. Mastercraftsman already has a Gr.3 winner inbred 4x4 and a Listed winner inbred 4x3. He has a very useful French filly with a dam by KINGMAMBO and three Group winners have dams sired by grandsons of MR PROSPECTOR . Mares by DUBAWI and DUTCH ART could reinforce Mastercraftsman’s juvenile ability. Danehill Dancer sired a classic winner from a mare by INDIAN RIDGE . Three of his other stallion sons have sired Group winners from this line, from daughters of INDIAN RIDGE , NAMID and COMPTON PLACE . Danehill Dancer did particularly well with the NIJINSKY branch, which supplied him with two of his classic winners - Speciosa and Again. Another son of Danehill Dancer sired a Prix de l’Abbaye winner from a daughter of CAERLEON . Mastercraftsman has a Gr.3 winner out of a CAERLEON mare. The Danehill male line has some smart performers inbred either 2x3 or 3x3 to DANEHILL . The Gr.3 winner Ladies Are Forever and Gr.1 sprinter Hoof It are by a son of Danehill Dancer out of a daughter of DANETIME , whereas Choisir’s Hong Kong Derby winner Luger is out of a DANZERO mare.

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