Three year-old filly Prompt Response posted her first stakes win when successful
in the Listed MRC Twilight Glow Stakes to become the 43rdstakes-winner worldwide to carry the double cross.She is by the Redoute's Choice stallion Beneteau from a daughter of Exceed and Excel, so has exactly the sort of 3 x 3 Danehill male line to male line pedigree that many people now shy away from.
The stats for this exact pattern of line breeding are 45.9% winners to runners with 322 winners from 702 runners including 10 stakes-winners headed by Hong Kong Derby HK Gr 1winner Luger, who is by Choisir from a daughter of Danzero.
Luger also has a Group III winning full sister in Psychologist, while Prompt Response has a Group III winning full brother in Prompt Return.
Prompt Response is the fourth Australian stakes-winner this season to carry the double Danehill, the other three stakes-winners being Don't Doubt Mamma (3 x 4) and Selenia (3 x 4), both by Not a Single Doubt and Ulmann (4 x 2), who is by Sebring ( whose dam is by Flying Spur) from a daughter of Danehill.
The overall stats for double Danehill in any way shape or form within five generations is 46.1 % winners to runners with 1048 winners from 2272 runners including 43 stakes-winners headed by Group I winners Guelph, Astaire and Southern Lord.
Love it or hate it, there is plenty of double Danehill out there and savvy breeders that can crack the case on how to make it work will be the big winners in time.
