- Rhythm (horse)
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Rhythm
caption =
sire =Mr. Prospector
grandsire =Raise a Native
dam =Dance Number
damsire =Northern Dancer
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1987
country =United States flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder =Ogden M. Phipps
owner = Ogden M. Phipps
trainer =Claude R. McGaughey III
record = 20: 6-3-4
earnings = $1,592,532
race =Travers Stakes (1990)
Breeders' Cup wins:Breeders' Cup Juvenile (1989)
awards= U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1989)
honours =
updated= September 8, 2007Rhythm (1987–2007) was an American Champion
Thoroughbred racehorse. Regally bred inKentucky , he was out of the Grade I winning mareDance Number who was a daughter of the Champion British and American sire and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee,Northern Dancer . Rhythm's father was a North American Champion sire, the influentialMr. Prospector , himself a son of the important sire,Raise a Native . Owned, bred, and raced byOgden M. Phipps of the famous horse-racingPhipps family , Rhythm was trained by future Hall of Famer, Shug McGaughey. The colt started five times in 1989, finishing his two-year-old campaign with a record of 3-1-1. His one second-place finish was to stablemateAdjudicating in the Grade I Champagne Stakes. In the most important race of the year for his age group, jockeyCraig Perret rode Rhythm to a two-length victory in theBreeders' Cup Juvenile in a year when it was held at Florida'sGulfstream Park . The colt's performances earned him 1989 U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt honors.In 1990, three-year-old Rhythm made ten starts, winning three times. An increasingly difficult temperament combined with a throat problem that necessitated
surgery resulted in the colt's handlers having to skip the U.S. Triple Crown series. By mid summer, Rhythm was getting back in shape and ran second in theDwyer Stakes and third in both theWoodward Stakes and in theHaskell Invitational Handicap before scoring his most important victory of the year in the prestigious Grade ITravers Stakes .Retired from racing after five winless starts in 1991, Rhythm was sold for US$5.5 million to
Japan ese breeders. He entered stud in 1992 atArrow Stud atHokkaidō from where he would be shuttled to breeders inNew Zealand andAustralia before returning to the United States in 1997 to stand atAshford Stud nearVersailles, Kentucky . In 2000, Rhythm was sent to Diamond F Ranch inGrass Valley, California where on September 4, 2007 he is reported to have fractured a leg in a paddock accident and had to be euthanized.As a stallion, Rhythm sired 24 stakes winners. His most successful progeny were in New Zealand and Australia where he was the sire of three
Southern Hemisphere champions including the outstanding filly Ethereal whose fourGroup One wins included three of the most important staying races in Australian racing: theCaulfield Cup , theMelbourne Cup andThe BMW Stakes .References
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/rhythm Rhythm's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSRcIJ1sTgg Video at YouTube of Rhythm's win in the 1989 Breeders' Cup Juvenile]
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