Hula Dancer

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Hula Dancer


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sire = Native Dancer
grandsire = Polynesian
dam = Flash On
damsire = Ambrose Light
sex = Filly
foaled = 1960
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Gray
breeder = Gertrude T. Widener
owner = Gertrude T. Widener
trainer = Etienne Pollet
record = 8: 6-?-?
earnings = Not found
race = Prix de la Salamandre (1962)
Grand Critérium (1962)
Champion Stakes (1963)
Prix Jacques Le Marois (1963)
Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (1963)

British Classic Race wins:
1,000 Guineas (1963)
awards=
honours = Prix Hula Dancer at Fontainebleau Racecourse
updated= august 1, 2007

Hula Dancer (foaled 1960 in Kentucky) was a French Thoroughbred filly racehorse. She was sired by Native Dancer, the 1954 1954 United States Horse of the Year and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. Owner Gertrude Widener raced Ambrose Light in France and brought him to the United States to stand at stud where he sired Hula Dancer's dam, Flash On.

Gertrude Widener sent Hula Dancer to trainer Etienne Pollet at his stables at Chantilly Racecourse in France. Racing as a two year old in 1962, she defeated colts while winning the Prix de la Salamandre and the Grand Critérium, two of France's most important races for her age group.

At age three, Hula Dancer raced both in France and in England where she again defeated colts on a regular basis as well as older horses in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse. The highlight of her 1963 racing campaign was a victory in the British Classic, the 1,000 Guineas.

The quality of horses she beat is evidenced by the fact that every one of her six conditions race wins are now Group 1 events.

Retired to broodmare duty in France, Hula Dancer met with limited success.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/hula+dancer Hula Dancer's pedigree and partial racing stats]