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Monday, July 28,
2008
By GLENYE CAIN OAKFORD
DAILY RACING FORM |
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The late sire Danzig hit a landmark on July 26 when his son
Olympic became his 200th stakes winner. Olympic, a 6-year-old
out of 1991 champion older female Queena, won the Mataji Stakes
at Calder on Saturday, his first stakes victory. |
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Danzig stood at Claiborne Farm in Paris, KY, for his entire stud
career, until his death in 2006. He currently is the world's
third-ranked sire of stakes winners. Ahead of him are his son
Danehill with 349 and Sadler's Wells with 297, according to the
Jockey Club's statistics. Danehill died in 2003, and Sadler's
Wells, a son of Northern Dancer like Danzig, was pensioned in
2008. Both stood for Irish-based Coolmore Stud. |
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Danehill and
Sadler's Wells have benefited from larger books of mares - and
therefore larger foal crops - than Danzig. Danzig rarely bred
more than 70 mares and bred as many as 75 in a season only once
in his career. Danehill, one of the first stallion to shuttle
between the northern and southern hemispheres, had an average
crop size of 178, and Sadler's Wells, though he did not shuttle,
still had an average crop sire of 98, as compared with Danzig's
average of 46. |
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Bred in Pennsylvania by Derry Meeting Farm and Will Farish,
Danzig won all three of his starts for owner Henryk de
Kwiatkowski before retiringto Clairborne. He went on to lead the
sires' list in 1991, 1992, and 1993. |
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