Danceteria a first Group 1 winner from Redoute's Choice's European crops

Danceteria showed laudable class and stamina to win the Group 1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis at Munich on Sunday and in doing so he enhanced the initially disappointing record of late multiple Australian champion sire Redoute's Choice with the two crops he conceived in a short shuttling mission to France.

Redoute's Choice travelled to Haras de Bonneval in Normandy amid much fanfare in 2013 and 2014, as part of a collaboration between the stud's owner the Aga Khan and the sire's southern hemisphere custodians, Arrowfield Stud.

The son of Danehill, who has fielded 34 Australasian-bred Group/Grade 1 winners, was greeted enthusiastically by breeders in Europe who sent him high-achieving mares such as Alpine Rose, Daryaba, Forever Times, My Branch, Vadawina, Yummy Mummy and Zarkava in year one and Daryakana, Desert Bloom, Model Queen, Reinamixa and Silkwood in his second season.

The resultant progeny are now four- and five-year-olds and it has to be said that, until a recent upturn in fortunes, their performance had been a little underwhelming, especially when compared with the sire's Australian stud exploits.

The older crop contained Group 3 winners Gold Luck, Ibiza and Spotify, Listed scorers Time's Arrow and Wajnah as well as stakes-placed Astronomy's Choice, Golden Attitude and Maid To Remember.

Danceteria: may make breeders look more favourably on Redoute's Choice's European shuttle stintCredit: Mark Cranham

The younger class has been doing more to redeem the reputation of Redoute's Choice's northern hemisphere venture as it includes Danceteria – the first European conceived Group 1 winner by the sire and his 35th overall – as well as this month's Group 2 Lancashire Oaks heroine Enbihaar, who holds an entry in the Lillie Langtry Stakes at Glorious Goodwood on Saturday.

Those European-bred Redoute's Choice four-year-olds also count Sandown Classic Trial victor Sevenna Star, Listed winner Lilac Fairy and black type-placed Impertinente, Palavas and Roystonia among their number.

Redoute's Choice – who died in March – was a top-class sprinter-miler in his own racing career and is a noted source of speedy and precocious stock in Australia, and yet many of his best runners in Europe have taken time to come to hand and excelled over further. This is likely a result of breeders having sent him more Classically-bred and/or performing mares.

Danceteria is a case in point. He was bred by Berend Van Dalfsen out of the Cadeaux Genereux mare Bal De La Rose, who won twice in the summer of her juvenile year but claimed her sole Pattern success in the Group 3 Prix Andre Baboin over ten furlongs on soft ground at Lyon Parilly in the autumn of her three-year-old season.

Bal De La Rose, who has also produced the mile Listed winner Blossomtime to Shamardal, is a half-sister to Poule d'Essai des Poulains and Prix du Jockey Club hero Lope De Vega and to Group 3 scorer and Prix de l'Opera third Lady Frankel.

The dam has a Siyouni two-year-old colt sent to Japan and named Satono Giverny after being purchased by Narvick International for €220,000 at last year's Arqana August Yearling Sale. She also has a Siyouni yearling colt bought by Philipp Graf von Stauffenberg for €180,000 as a foal in Deauville in December.

Danceteria – who is a maiden Group 1 winner for trainer David Menuisier and represents owners Australian Bloodstock and Clive Washbourn – was himself a vendor buyback at 90,000gns when presented by Hillwood Bloodstock at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2016.

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