Suave Dancer

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Suave Dancer


caption =
sire = Green Dancer
grandsire = Nijinsky
dam = Suavite
damsire = Alleged
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1988
country = USA flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder = Xalapa Farm
owner = Henri Chalhoub
trainer = John E. Hammond
record = 9: 5-2-2
earnings = $1,741,772
race = Prix Greffulhe (1991)
Prix du Jockey Club (1991)
Irish Champion Stakes (1991)
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1991)
awards= European Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1991)
honours = Life-sized statue at Longchamp Racecourse
updated= September 23, 2006

Suave Dancer (1988-1998) is a French Thoroughbred race horse who was the 1991 Champion European Three-Year-Old.

Bred by Lillie F. Webb's Xalapa Farm near Paris, Kentucky, Suave Dancer was sired by Green Dancer out of the mare Suavite, both American thoroughbreds. A male line descendant of Northern Dancer through Nijinsky II, and a female line descendant of Ribot via Tom Rolfe, Suave Dancer was owned by French businessman Henri Chalhoub and trained by Chantilly, France-based Englishman, John E. Hammond.

Ridden by American jockey Cash Asmussen, who actually selected and purchased the horse for the owner, Suave Dancer won the 1991 Prix du Jockey Club, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, was second to Generous in the Irish Derby then came back to win the Irish Champion Stakes. For his performance in 1991, Suave Dancer was voted the Cartier Three-Year-Old European Champion Colt.

In 1991 The National Stud at Newmarket bought a half-share in Suave Dancer. Retired to stud, he was later sent to Eliza Park Stud in Romsey, Victoria, Australia. Suave Dancer was the sire of 11 stkes winners before his untimely death at age ten in December 1998.

References

* [http://www.chef-de-race.com/classic_winners/arc_de_triomphe/suave_dancer.htm Suave Dancer pedigree, career highlights]