GAELIC DANCER (1966) photo

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Postby summerhorse » Fri Nov 12, 2010 8:49 pm

It's amazing (and disheartening) how quickly all trace of so many horses just ceases to exist.
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Postby Jorge » Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:00 am

Update:

A collaborator has just informed me that a mare named Miss Silver Sage was also officially registered as a "gray", even though neither of her immediate parents were "grays". This new information confirms that in addition to siring Chance Dancer (an official "gray" coming from non-gray immediate parents) Gaelic Dancer also sired some very strange phenotyped progeny.

GAELIC DANCER pedigree: http://www.pedigreequery.com/gaelic+dancer
GAELIC DANCER progeny: http://www.pedigreequery.com/progeny/gaelic+dancer

CHANCE DANCER pedigree: http://www.pedigreequery.com/chance+dancer
MISS SILVER SAGE pedigree: http://www.pedigreequery.com/miss+silver+sage

Would really like to see a photo of all these cases!

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Postby summerhorse » Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:43 pm

that is very odd. I wonder if they were owned by the same people? Or kept at the same farm?
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Postby Jorge » Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:55 pm

I just found the following reference about Chance Dancer (gray G 1975).
written by "CINNABAR123" at:
http://betfair.lithium.com/t5/History-a ... m-p/483916

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Postby Jorge » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:00 am

Any update on finding a photo of Gaelic Dancer and or his son Chance Dancer?

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Postby Jorge » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:05 am

Apropos this lineage, here is an interesting chart:

http://www.idshs.com.au/perl/search.pl? ... ian&gens=5

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Postby xfactor fan » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:29 pm

Jorge,

If you aren't a member, you might want to join the TVG Forum. There are several folks over there that love Native Dancer, and if anyone can track down a photo of Chance Dancer, Mudmont probably could. (At least I'd bet that way)

With your love of greys, they should welcome you. They keep finding photos of Native Dancer sons and daughters--just amazing stuff.

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Postby Jorge » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:14 am

xfactor fan wrote:Jorge,

If you aren't a member, you might want to join the TVG Forum. There are several folks over there that love Native Dancer, and if anyone can track down a photo of Chance Dancer, Mudmont probably could. (At least I'd bet that way)

With your love of greys, they should welcome you. They keep finding photos of Native Dancer sons and daughters--just amazing stuff.


Dear "xfactorfan",

Wow, thank you so much for the idea. I should join them albeit the available time is very limited. Something like Santa Claus trying to spread all the toys of the world in one night. :lol:

Thanks again for your always valuable assistance.

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Postby Jorge » Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:43 pm

Hope this is the year for finding the elusive picture of GAELIC DANCER and or CHANCE DANCER (his son).

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Postby summerhorse » Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:02 pm

There MIGHT be a pic. here if you want to pay for the article, it is a 2 page one.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/acc ... atl=google

It's $4

I wonder if Chance Dancer was a Lucky Chappy sort of rabicano or sabino roan and got labeled grey?
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Postby summerhorse » Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:14 pm

Guess not, here he is mentioned in this article for being gray with no gray parents:

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract. ... 5B888BF1D3

I would really rather suspect a mix up at the farm (or somewhere) here.
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Postby Jorge » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:50 pm

A dear friend just showed me two photos of Gaelic Dancer and there is no
doubt that he was an ordinary bay horse. So there is a good chance that an error occurred with his alleged son Chance Dancer (gray G 1975) because he cannot be the son of two bay parents.