Dance Smartly

Dance Smartly
Dance Smartly's plaque at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
Sire	Danzig
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Classy 'n Smart
Damsire	Smarten
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1988
Country	Canada
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Sam-Son Farm
Owner	Sam-Son Farm
Trainer	James E. Day
Record	17: 12-2-3
Earnings	$3,263,835[1]
Major wins
Natalma Stakes (1990) Star Shoot Stakes Selene Stakes Canadian Oaks (1991) Queen's Plate (1991) Prince of Wales Stakes (1991) Breeders' Stakes (1991) Molson Export Million (1991) Breeders' Cup Distaff (1991) Canadian Maturity Stakes (1992)
Awards
10th Canadian Triple Crown Champion (1991) United States Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1991) Canadian Horse of the Year (1991) Canadian Champion 3-Year-Old Filly (1991) Sovereign Award for Outstanding Broodmare (2001)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1995) United States Racing Hall of Fame (2003) Dance Smartly Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack
Last updated on 30 September 2011

Dance Smartly (1988–2007) was a Champion Thoroughbred racemare who went undefeated in 1991 while winning the Canadian Triple Crown and becoming the first horse bred in Canada to win a Breeders' Cup race. She was inducted into both the Canadian and American Racing Halls of Fame.

Bred in Ontario by Ernie Samuel's Sam-Son Farm, Dance Smartly was a bay mare with a distinctive white star on her forehead that earned her the nickname Daisy. She was by Danzig, one of Northern Dancer's most influential sire sons. Her dam was the Canadian Hall of Fame mare Classy 'n Smart by Smarten. She was trained by Jim Day.^[2]