Mayflower Stakes (1958) Stepping Stone Purse (1959) Jockey Club Gold Cup (1959) Metropolitan Handicap (1959) Monmouth Handicap (1959) Travers Stakes (1959) Woodward Stakes (1959, 1960) Suburban Handicap (1960) Grey Lag Handicap (1960)
American Classic Race wins: Kentucky Derby 2nd (1959) Preakness Stakes 2nd (1959) Belmont Stakes (1959)
Awards
U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1959) DRF U.S. Champion Male Handicap Horse (1959) United States Horse of the Year (1959)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1977) #53 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century Sword Dancer Stakes at Saratoga Race Course
Last updated on June 23, 2010
Sword Dancer (April 24, 1956 – November 16, 1984) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the leading American colt of his generation and was voted United States Horse of the Year in 1959.
SwordDancer (April 24, 1956 – November 16, 1984) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the leading American colt of his...
a sworddance between two or more people. Each style requires certain movements that require the dancer to be highly agile and athletic. Many sword-dances...
Morris dance, in Austria, Germany, Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Romania. In Ghillie Callum or "Scottish sworddance" the dancer crosses...
The Long Sworddance is a hilt-and-point sworddance recorded mainly in Yorkshire, England. The dances are usually performed around Christmas time and...
The SwordDancer Stakes is an American race for thoroughbred horses, aged three and up, run annually in mid August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga...
Rapper sword (also known as short sworddance) is a variation of sworddance unique to Northumberland and County Durham. It emerged from the pit villages...
The SwordDance (Polish: Taniec wśród mieczów) is a 19th-century painting series by the Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Dance Amongst...
one dancer and the other end by another. Rapper sides consist of five dancers, who are permanently linked-up during the dance. The rapper sword is a...
to stop". The Highland dirk dance, in which the dancer flourishes the weapon, is often linked to the sworddance or dances called mac an fhorsair, (literally...
movements of the dancer. The symbolic use of ssang dan geom, i.e. a replica of dual short swords, keeps to the militaristic origins of this dance. Geom-mu has...
A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be...
The Lion Throne (2001) Vol. 1: Sword-Dancer (1986) Sword-Dancer is the story of Sandtiger, a famous Southron sword-dancer, who is hired by a Northern woman...
The Earsdon SwordDance is a traditional English folk dance performed by the Royal Earsdon SwordDancers. They are based in Earsdon, Northumberland, a...
Ukrainian dance Verbuňk Nordic polska dance Square danceSworddance Weapon danceSworddances include long sworddances and rapper dancing. Some choreographed...
men opposite of one another, each of whom may or may not be wielding a sword or cane, and is accompanied by drums and spoken poetry. Originally, the...
The Papa Stour SwordDance, or Shetland SwordDance, is a British linked sworddance involving seven dancers, who represent the Seven Champions of Christendom:...
Spots (1963) and Damascus (1967) Belmont Stakes: Gallant Man (1957), SwordDancer (1959), Jaipur (1962), Damascus (1967) and Avatar (1975) Two of Shoemaker's...
Historically, Chinese swords are classified into two types, the jian and the dao. A Jian is a straight, double-edged sword mainly used for stabbing, and...
horn-shaped stick and is striking a frame drum. Early examples of sword and spear dances can be found amongst the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe, such...
in Doti, Baitadi and Darchula districts) cultures. It is basically a sworddance accompanying a marriage procession but now it is performed on many auspicious...
United States[citation needed] Dirk dance and Scottish sworddances – Scotland European sworddance or weapon dance of various kinds Haka - Māori people...
of sworddance in the Tang dynasty provided an important prerequisite for the later development of sword technique. In the Ming dynasty, the sword was...
this dance has similarities with Chapi dance. The sworddance, which begins with a kind of spiritual dance and Sama's rotation (ritual dance), is basically...