Digamist
Digamist | |
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Sire | Khalid Abdulla |
Trainer | Jeremy Tree |
Record | 7: 3-0-1 |
Major wins | |
Phoenix Stakes (1987) | |
Awards | |
Timeform rating 110 (1987) |
Digamist (26 March 1985 – February 2011) was an American-bred, British-trained
Background
Digamist was a "rangy"
He was sired by
Racing career
1987: two-year-old season
Digamist finished third to Ship of Fools in a minor race over five
On 9 August Digamist was sent to Ireland for the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at
In the official International Classification for 1987, Digamist was given a rating of 114, making him eleven pound inferior to the top-rated pair Ravinella and Warning. The independent Timeform organisation rated him on 100, seventeen ponds behind Warning, who was their top-rated juvenile.[2]
Stud record
Despite reports that Digamist would resume his racing career in North America, he did not race again and was retired to become a breeding stallion. He was based at the Irish National Stud until 1993, and was then returned to his native Kentucky, where he stood at the Crown Colony Farm and later at the Margaux Stud. In 1997 he moved to Xanthus Farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was euthanised in February 2011 owing to "complications from old age".[6]
Digamist sired champions in Panama and Austria, while the best of his North American runners included the Canadian stakes winner Second Chance.[6]
Pedigree
Sire Blushing Groom (FR) 1974 |
Red God (USA) 1954 |
Nasrullah | Nearco |
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Mumtaz Begum | |||
Spring Run | Menow | ||
Boola Brook | |||
Runaway Bride (GB) 1962 |
Wild Risk | Rialto | |
Wild Violet | |||
Aimee | Tudor Minstrel | ||
Emali | |||
Dam Disconiz (USA) 1977 |
Northern Dancer (CAN) 1961 |
Nearctic | Nearco |
Lady Angela | |||
Natalma | Native Dancer | ||
Almahmoud | |||
Codorniz (URU) 1962 |
Cockrullah | Nasrullah | |
Summerleaze | |||
Boule de Neige | Latero | ||
Blancanieves (Family: 14-f)[5] |
- Digamist was inbred 3 × 4 to Nasrullah, meaning that this stallion appears in both the third and fourth generations of his pedigree.
References
- ^ a b "Digamist pedigree". Equineline.
- ^ ISBN 0-900599-46-4.
- ^ "Blushing Groom – Stud Record". Racing Post.
- ^ "Disconiz – Profiles". Equibase.
- ^ a b "Honoria – Family 14-f". Thoroughbred Bloodlines.
- ^ a b "Barbican, Digamist Euthanized". The Blood-Horse. 17 February 2011.