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Does he have a good record of producing sharp sprinters?
Choisir, Fast Company, Speciosa, Georgebernardshaw are those with a mean speed profile, but from what I have seen of Danehill Dancer’s 2YOs this season, I recognise more durable and grinding miler/middle distance horses than those with powerful engines.
What do you think?
Danehill Dancer is becoming more like his sire every year – he seems to be upgrading his mares with class without imposing a distance requirement on them.
He became well known as a sprinter sire at first – probably because of the lower grade speedy dams he was covering. As his reputation has grown, he has been covering more mares from ‘classic’ bloodlines, who generally have more 8-10f profiles, thus he has had more success over those distances.
He has shown also with some of his fillies, particularly Arapaho Miss and Anna Pavlova, that when mated with a strong middle distance female family he can produce quality middle distance animals.
So, as with Danehill himself, my advice for DD distance requirements is to focus more on the damline, rather than trying to impose an average sire distance figure on the progeny.
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