Dayjur

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Dayjur
Sire	Danzig (horse)
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Gold Beauty
Damsire	Mr. Prospector
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1987
Country	America
Colour	Brown
Breeder	Georgia E. Hofmann
Owner	Sheikh Hamdam Al-Maktoum
Trainer	Dick Hern
Record	11:7-3-0
Earnings	£327,280
Major Racing Wins, Awards and Honours
Major Racing Wins
Temple Stakes (1990) King's Stand Stakes (1990) Nunthorpe Stakes (1990) Ladbroke Sprint Cup (1990) Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp (1990)
Infobox last updated on: January 1, 2008.

Dayjur (foaled 6 February 1987) was an American-bred racehorse who was trained by Dick Hern in the United Kingdom. He was beaten only four times out of eleven starts and of those, one was because he did not stay the trip, and another in the most freakish circumstances. That was in his final race, the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Belmont Park, in 1990, when Dayjur looked set for victory only to attempt to jump the shadow of the grandstand near the line which allowed Safely Kept to beat him by a neck. Before that he had carried almost all before him as a three-year-old, once his best distance and running style were sorted out, and he blazed to victory in the Temple Stakes, the Nunthorpe Stakes, the Ladbroke Sprint Cup and the Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp before he went to Belmont. He retired to the Shadwell Racing farm in Kentucky of his owner Sheikh Hamdan Al-Maktoum, from where he has sired many fast horses like Tipsy Creek, Hawriyah, Hayil and Millstream.

[edit] References

• The Complete Encyclopedia of Horse Racing - written by Bill Mooney and George Ennor
• Racing Post horse form
• Dayjur's pedigree