A Fleet's Dancer

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A Fleet's Dancer
Sire Afleet
Grandsire Mr. Prospector
DamMy Dream Come True
Damsire Vice Regent
Sex Stallion
Foaled1995
Country Canada
Colour Chestnut
BreederOWD Inc
OwnerCam Allard
Trainer Roger L. Attfield
Record45: 12-6-8
Earnings$1,036,649
Major wins
Canadian Derby (1998)
Dominion Day Handicap (2001)
Durham Cup Handicap (2001)
Awards
Canadian Champion Older Male Horse (2001)

A Fleet's Dancer (born February 19, 1995) was a Kentucky bred racehorse that became a competitive runner in Canada.

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Race career

While he was a black-type winner throughout his career, with a win in the Grade III Canadian Derby during his three year old year, his best year was his six-year-old season. He would go on to win the two Grade III races, Dominion Day Handicap and Durham Cup Handicap; while placing in the grade two Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap, and Kentucky Cup Classic Handicap. His performances in these races would win him the 2001 Sovereign Award for Champion Older Male Horse. [1]

A graded stakes race is a thoroughbred horse race in the United States that meets the criteria of the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA). A specific grade level is then assigned to the race, based on statistical analysis of the quality of the field in previous years, provided the race meets the minimum purse criteria for the grade in question. In Canada, a similar grading system is maintained by the Jockey Club of Canada. Graded stakes races are similar to Group races in Europe but the grading is more dynamic in North America.

The Canadian Derby is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the Century Mile Racetrack and Casino in Leduc County, Alberta. A Grade III event held on the third Sunday in August, it is open to three-year-old horses and is raced on dirt over a distance of one mile and a quarter.

The Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap was a Grade II Thoroughbred race for horses three-years-old and up run on dirt at Saratoga Race Course in New York from 1994 through 2005. From 1994 through 1996, it was run as the Saratoga Cup Handicap, the name of another race that was run from 1865 through 1955.

Retired

A Fleet's Dancer retired in 2002 to Anson Stud Farm in Caldon East, Ontario, Canada. He sired a few stakes performers, but nothing close to his caliber. He only produced a few crops before he was euthanized in 2007. It's rumored that he had a difficult temperament and injured a farm employee before being put down. [2]

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