Stakes Double for Double Danehill

Tara Madgwick - Thursday February 23

Love it or hate it, we are seeing more and more of horses carrying a double cross of Danehill and two of them have won stakes races in the past week.

Ducimus - Grant Courtney

Ducimus - Grant Courtney

$700,000 Inglis Premier sale-topper Ducimus (2c Snitzel x Beauty World, by Danehill Dancer) opened his stakes account with a good win in the Listed VRC Talindert Stakes last Saturday and carries a close up 3 x 3 double cross.

Star Tasmanian juvenile Pateena Arena (2f Needs Further x Gehenna, by Ladoni) won her second stakes race when taking the Listed Gold Sovereign Stakes at Launbceston on Wednesday and is also 3 x 3 to Danehill. (Read about her win here)

The current statistics for the double cross within five generations according to Arion are 46.4% winners to runners – 1165 winners from 2513 runners.

51 stakes-winners are bred this way headed by Group I winners Guelph, Southern Lord and the Northern Hemisphere bred Astaire.

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