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Danzig's half-brother
at Foxes Hollow
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27/7/2003 |
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Few
sires ever available before in Australia can boast the credential possessed by
Binary Star, a budget service fee priced sire standing at Di Hill’s respected
Foxes Hollow Stud at Oakdale in the Camden district near Sydney.
The American bred Binary Star’s uniqueness lies in the fact that he is a
half-brother to a world champion sire of the past quarter century, none other
than the mercurial influence Danzig.
Revered in this part of the world in particular for the achievement of his son
Danehill, Danzig lays claim to being at least the world’s greatest modern day
source of superior quality.
Although
he trails Sadler’s Wells and the dual hemisphere used Danehill by number of
stakes winners, he is out in front by superior winners to runners on the average
earnings yardstick.
To date Danzig, a son of Northern Dancer and the Admiral’s Voyage stakes
winner Pas De Nom, has had over 580 winners - 230 two-year-olds - of 1900 races
and US$94million. Contributors to mid 2003 had included 180 individual stakes
winners, a super high19%. In contrast Sadler’s Wells, the giant of European
breeding, has had 15% stakes winners.
A mammoth 50 of the Danzig progeny have won Group1 races and over 20 have been
named champion with the titles coming in the United States, Canada, England,
Ireland, France, Italy, Dubai and Japan.
Through
the decade of the nineties the offspring of Danzig or his son Green Desert
nearly had a mortgage on the champion sprint titles of Europe.
Danzig only raced three times but he had a porche engine that suggested he was
the most spectacular speed machine by Northern Dancer. A major contributor to
that speed was evidently Pas De Nom, his dam and also producer of Binary
Star.She won nine races in America including four stakes.
Binary Star, a big robust horse with similar massive hindquarters to Danzig, did
not get a chance of showing he had similar speed to his sibling as he was
injured at his only race start. The same thing happened to Fairy King and it did
not stop him becoming a noted sire.
Waquoit, the sire of Binary Star, was a magnifcent, sound racehorse winning19
races including 13 stakes and earning over $2.2million in 30 appearances. At
stud this representative of the best modern branch of the Man o’War male line
has been responsible for 280 winners of 1100 races and $20million.
A significant feature of the breeding of Binary Star is that besides being a
half-brother to Danzig he has no Northern Dancer in his pedigree and overall is
a rare complete outcross in six generations to Nearco.
Binary Star stands at the Foxes Hollow Stud with the second season Danehill sire
Shrewdy and the promising young Fairy King winner getter Adventurous.
Brian Russell
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