Dancing Rain

Dancing Rain
Dancing Rain after her win in the 2011 Epsom Oaks with jockey Johnny Murtagh.
SireDanehill Dancer
GrandsireDanehill
DamRain Flower
DamsireIndian Ridge
SexMare
Foaled24 April 2008
CountryIreland
ColourChestnut
BreederSwettenham Stud
Owner1) Martin J. and Lee A. Taylor
2) Sheikh Mohammed
TrainerWilliam Haggas
Record10: 4-2-1
Earnings£ 572,503[1]
Major wins
Epsom Oaks (2011)
British Champions Fillies' and Mares' Stakes (2011)
Preis der Diana (2011)

Dancing Rain (foaled on 24 April 2008) is a retired Thoroughbred mare that was bred in Ireland and raced in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Japan. Dancing Rain was the unanticipated winner of the 2011 Epsom Oaks and won the Preis der Diana in the later part of her three-year-old season. Her form faltered late in her three-year-old year, finishing 16th out of a field of 19 horses in the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup in Japan. Her four-year-old season was plagued with injury and she did not run in a race until late October 2012. Retired at the end of 2012, Dancing Rain became a broodmare at Clairemont Stud in Hampshire and was subsequently sold to Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for £4.2m while in foal to Frankel.

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