Dance Partner

Dance Partner
Dance Partner (nearest camera) finishing second to Silk Justice
Sire	Sunday Silence
Grandsire	Halo
Dam	Dancing Key
Damsire	Nijinsky
Sex	Mare
Foaled	25 May 1992
Country	Japan
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Shadai Farm
Owner	Toshiaki Shirai
Trainer	Katsumi Yoshida
Record	25: 4-9-3
Earnings	¥603,781,000
Major wins
Yushun Himba (1995) Keian Hai (1996) Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup (1996)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly (1995) JRA Award for Best Older Filly or Mare (1996)

Dance Partner, (Japanese: ダンスパートナー, foaled 25 May 1992) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. From the first crop of foals sired by Sunday Silence she won four of her twenty-five races and finished second nine times in a racing career which lasted from January 1995 until December 1997. She was unraced as a juvenile, but in 1995 she won the Yushun Himba and won the JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly. As a four-year-old she won the Keian Hai and the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup and won the JRA Award for Best Older Filly or Mare. She failed to win as a five-year-old and was retired from racing at the end of the year. Apart from her victories she was placed in the Oka Sho, Prix de la Nonette Kyoto Daishoten and Takarazuka Kinen (twice). She has had success as a broodmare, producing several good winners.

Dance Partner is a bay mare bred in Japan by Shadai Farm. She was from the first crop of foals sired by Sunday Silence, who won the 1989 Kentucky Derby, before retiring to stud in Japan where he was champion sire on thirteen consecutive occasions. His other major winners included Deep Impact, Stay Gold, Heart's Cry, Manhattan Cafe, Zenno Rob Roy and Neo Universe. Her dam Dancing Key was an unraced, American-bred mare who became a very successful broodmare in Japan: her other foals included Dance in the Dark and Dance in the Mood (Oka Sho).