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Seattle Dancer (April 22, 1984 – June 2, 2007) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who is the most expensive yearling ever sold at public auction.〔 ==Breeding== Seattle Dancer was bred in Kentucky by Warner L. Jones, William S. Farish III, and William S. Kilroy. The partnership owned his important dam, My Charmer. My Charmer was the dam of 1977 U.S. Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew. Seattle Dancer's sire was the 1971 British Triple Crown winner and Champion sire, Nijinsky, who was a son of Northern Dancer, whom the National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history".〔http://www.ntra.com/stats_bios.aspx?id=3407〕 Seattle Dancer joins nine other descendants of Northern Dancer who clinch the entire list of the ten most expensive colts sold at auction (current to 2014). In July 1985, Seattle Dancer was sent to the Keenland selected yearling sale where intense bidding on behalf of major breeders such as Allen Paulson and Sheikh Mohammed drove his selling price to a World record US$13.1 million (equal to about $ million today). Seattle Dancer's new owners were Stavros Niarchos (Greece), Susan Magnier and her father, Vincent O'Brien (Ireland), Robert Sangster (England), and a California businessman, Daniel Schwartz. Brought to Ballydoyle Stable in Ireland, a virus swept through the stables that kept a weakened Seattle Dancer out of racing as a two-year-old.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=srkTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2060,292601&dq=seattle-dancer&hl=en〕 Conditioned by Vincent O'Brien, and raced in the colors of Stavros Niarchos, in his April 1987 debut Seattle Dancer finished third in a race at the Curragh Racecourse in Ireland. He then won the Group 3 Gallinule Stakes at the Curragh and the Group 2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown Racecourse. In his next start, at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, France, he finished sixth in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a7oTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=4970,5759381&dq=seattle-dancer+prix+du+jockey+club&hl=en〕 At the same racecourse, in what would prove to be his final race, Seattle Dancer ran second in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris.〔http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/39735/seattle-dancer-record-priced-yearling-dead〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seattle Dancer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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