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Vale Hot Danish - a life in pictures

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This is an obituary, and one that I am late posting.  There is no excuse for it, apart from exhaustion from going through so many photographs during a very busy period during April.  I counted I'd been home for only about 6 days in the month of April before I got home on Tuesday.  However, if I have to make an excuse, almost as if to apologise to the great mare for my lateness, my excuse is that I wanted to do her justice. The reason for this posting is the death of one of my favourite racehorses.  Hot Danish.  She was foaled in 2003, sired by Nothin' Leica Dane and out of a mare called Hot n' Breezy.  Les Bridge bought her at the Inglis Scone Yearling Sale in 2005 for $32,000.  He'd liked her on paper, but wasn't so keen on seeing her.  Thank goodness his wife convinced him otherwise.  She will never have the esteemed place in the industry that the recently deceased stallion Sadler's Wells occupied.  That sort of standing is only reserved for a handful of mare