:Dance in the Dark (horse)

{{Short description|Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse}}{{Expand japanese|date=October 2023}}{{Infobox racehorse

| horsename = Dance in the Dark

| image =File:Dance_in_the_dark.jpg

| caption =Dance in the Dark with Yutaka Take (1995)

| sire = Sunday Silence

| grandsire = Halo

| dam = Dancing Key

| damsire = Nijinsky II

| sex = Stallion

| foaled = {{birth_date|1993|6|5}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|1|2|1993|6|5}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.jra.go.jp/news/202001/010404.html |title=ダンスインザダーク号が死亡 |access-date=2020-05-06 |archive-date=2020-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215164153/http://www.jra.go.jp/news/202001/010404.html |url-status=dead }}

| country = Japan

| colour = Bay

| breeder = Shadai Farm Chitose

| owner = Shadai Racehorse Co

| trainer = Kojiro Hashiguchi

| record = 8: 5-2-1

| earnings = 379,551,000 yen

| race = Kikuka Sho (1996)
Kyoto Shimbun Hai (1996)
Yayoi Sho (1996)

| awards = JRA Award for Best 4-Yr-Old Colt (1996)

| honours =

| updated = August 6, 2019

}}

Dance in the Dark (ダンスインザダーク, June 5, 1993 – January 2, 2020) was a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by Sunday Silence with the dam Dancing Key (sire Nijinsky II).

Career

Racing as a three-year-old, he defeated Fusaichi Concorde (winner of Japanese Derby) at Kikuka Sho (JPN Domestic GI, Japanese St. Leger), and was second in the Tokyo Yushun (JPN Domestic GI, Japanese Derby). After winning the Kikuka Sho, however, he was diagnosed with tendonitis, and as a result was retired to stand stud.{{Cite book |last=Shimada |first=Akihiro |title=Take yutaka no shunkan: Kidai no tensai kishu 10-nen no ayumi |publisher=Shueisha |year=1997 |isbn=9784087831092 |location=Tokyo |pages=207 |language=ja |oclc=675916714}}

Dance in the Dark was awarded the JRA Award for Best Four-Year-Old Colt for his win.

Stud career

Dance in the Dark's descendants include:{{cite web|title=Dance in the Dark|url=https://ahonoora.com/danceinthedark.html|website=Ahonoora|accessdate=6 August 2019|language=en}}

c = colt, f = filly

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| style="width:35px;"| Foaled

| style="width:120px;"| Name

| style="width:35px;"| Sex

| style="width:580px;"| Major Wins

1998

| Tsurumaru Boy

| c

| Yasuda Kinen, Kinko Sho, Chukyo Kinen

1998

| Daitaku Bertram

| c

| Hanshin Daishōten, Kitakyushu Kinen

1999

| Fast Tateyama

| c

| Kyoto Shimbun Hai

1999

| Tagano Maybach

| c

| Chukyo Kinen

2000

| That's the Plenty

| c

| Kikuka-shō, Radio Tampa Hai Nisai Stakes

2001

| Delta Blues

| c

| Kikuka-shō, Melbourne Cup, Stayers Stakes

2001

| Jolly Dance

| c

| Hanshin Himba Stakes{{cite web|title=Jolly Dance (JPN)|url=https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000727985/|website=JBIS|accessdate=6 August 2019|language=en}}

2001

| Dance A Joy

| c

| Kokura Kinen

2002

| Chosan

| c

| Mainichi Ōkan

2003

| Toho Alan

| c

| Kyōto Daishōten