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[news] Danoli dies

  • 26-04-2006 8:10am
    #1
    Bluetonic
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    Danoli dies
    26/04/2006 - 08:04:41

    Six-time Group One winner Danoli has died of a severe bout of colic at the age of 18.

    The gelding was put down at the Irish National Stud in Kildare over the weekend.

    “They tried everything they could and had no choice but to put him down, which was a great pity,” said his trainer Tom Foley.

    “He was a great horse for us and we will always have fond memories.”

    Danoli won 17 of his 32 career starts with the fondest memory being his Sun Alliance Novices’ Hurdle success at Cheltenham in 1994.

    Foley’s charge also went onto win the Aintree, Morgiana and Hatton’s Grace Hurdle under Charlie Swan.

    “People loved him because he was such a tough and genuine horse,” Swan told the Racing Post.

    “If he could have jumped fences as well as he did hurdles, he could have even been a Gold Cup horse.”

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/04/26/story255927.html


Comments

  • #2
    fr wishy washy
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    One of my fav horses.Saw him win his first 3 Bumpers and I knew he was going to be decent.

    Anybody remember his comeback (from injury)race at Leopardstown when he finished 3rd in the Irish Champion Hurdle and was mobbed in the parade ring which left about 5 people surrounding the winner of the race:D .

    Game Hennessy Gold Cup winner at Leopardstown later when not considered in the betting.


  • #3
    wb
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    I'm just about too young to have been betting on him, but I clearly remember watching him, as he was a favourite of my father. A sad day for all his connections.


  • #4
    careca
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    In my top three favourite NH horses along with Istabraq and Moscow. Had some heart and was brilliant when winning at cheltenham.


  • #5
    fits
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    Oh crap! I'm gutted. Mucked out his stable and gave him a brush a few times. He liked to eat my hair. He was still on box rest after the Aintree injury at the time.
    I always meant to pay a trip to the National Stud to see him.

    Oh well, he had a good life...


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