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.
$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.