MIRAGE DANCER - ONE NOMINATION FOR THE 2024 BREEDING SEASON  

Standing at: Castlefield Stud (IRE) 

With FRANKEL’s reputation soaring, and after being crowned champion sire, it was inevitable that a horse of the calibre of Mirage Dancer would be shortlisted for repatriation to Europe for a stud career. The former Sir Michael Stoute trainee was among the best-bred horses in training and a Group 1 winner.

A winner on his only start at two, Mirage Dancer was twice pattern-placed before landing a 12-furlong Listed contest at Goodwood, and he was a half-length runner-up to Best Solution in the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes shortly before an easy win in the Group 3 Glorious Stakes and being shorted-headed by Young Rascal in a Newbury Group 3.

He was a dual Group 2-placed stakes winner the following summer, and finished third in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup on his first start ‘down under’.

Mirage Dancer beat Mugatoo when landing the Group 1 Metropolitan Handicap at Randwick.

Forge (Dubawi), a half-brother to Mirage Dancer, was multiple pattern-placed including a nose second in a Grade 2 contest over eight and a half furlongs at Saratoga. He stands in Argentina and he and Mirage Dancer are out of the US Grade 1 star Heat Haze (Green Desert), which makes the great Hasili (Kahyasi) their granddam.

That phenomenal broodmare also gave us Grade 1 winner and Group 1 producer Banks Hill, Group 1 winners and Group 1 sires Cacique and Champs Elysees, plus Group 1 placed Group 2 scorer and leading international sire Dansili – all by Danehill (Danzig). Hasili was a Juddmonte gem.

Mirage Dancer has obvious potential to sire almost any type of racehorse you might want.
 

NB All successful bidders must pay for their Lots no later than close of business on 18th January 2024.

_{The Nomination will entitle the Purchaser to have one approved mare covered by the stallion in the 2024 Northern Hemisphere breeding season. The purchaser shall be entitled to a free return to the stallion for the 2025 covering season for the mare covered in 2024 or another approved mare provided that the stallion is still standing at the same farm and is available to cover mares and only if, following the end of the 2024 covering season:-a) the purchaser produces a certificate stating the mare is barren and signed by a qualified veterinary surgeon relating to an examination carried out at least 40 days from the mare's last service by the stallion, OR b) the purchaser produces a veterinary certificate to the effect that the mare either failed to give birth to a live foal or gave birth to a foal which died within 48 hours of birth other than by reason of accident.}  

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Consigned by: Castlefield Stud

Owned by: Thanks to Ger in Castlefield Stud for donating the nomination to the auction