Catcher in the Rye

Catcher in the Rye

Bay 2000 16.1½ hh (1.66)
Danehill - Truly A Dream
Distance won over: 8f.

Proven Group 1 ability - a fast finishing second in the French 2000 Guineas Gr.1. Precocious - stakes placed on his 2yo debut in the Rochestown S. LR on 12th June. A great looker - cost 4,900,000ff as a yearling. Out of E.P.Taylor Stakes Gr.2 winner Truly A Dream. His first 4 dams are all Group winners. His first crop yearlings in 2006 made up to €110,000. Catcher In the Rye has already sired a Classic winner from his first crop in 2008 (Rosenreihe - 1st German Oaks Gr.1)

Fee for 2009: €4,000

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Macau Star for Catcher in the Rye

(31st December 2008, Australia)
Exciting Macau based galloper Viva Pronto (3g Catcher in the Rye x Steel Shuffle, by Steel Blade) will take on the best sprinters his region has to offer after extending his unbeaten run to four with an effortless win at Taipa on Saturday. View article

Rhyno Chaser Atones

(27th September 2008, Australia)
Considered very unlucky when missing the kick and flying home for second to Sousa in the Group Three Newcastle Spring Stakes at his last start, Rhyno Chaser atoned for that narrow loss to take the Listed AJC Dulcify Quality. View article

Coolmore Sires Trifecta Spring Stakes

(17th September 2008, Australia)
The Group Three Spring Stakes at Newcastle is often a good guide for the future and on Wednesday we saw the Sheikh Mohammed owned Sousa (3c Galileo x Liberty Song, by Last Tycoon) step right up to the mark and score a tenacious win. View article

G1 for Catcher In The Rye filly

(3rd August 2008, Ireland)
Catcher In The Rye had a Classic success at Dusseldorf on Sunday when Rosenreihe (3f Catcher In The Rye-Rosengeste, by Be My Guest) captured the G1 Preis der Diana, the German Oaks. View article

Seventh Aussie Winner for Catcher in the Rye

(20th July 2008, Australia)
Catcher in the Rye continues to impress and after adding an Aussie bred South African winner to his tally last week, posted his seventh Australian juvenile winner this season when the Bede Murray trained Bilgola scored at Kembla on Saturday. View article

Metro Winner for Catcher in the Rye

(15th July 2008, Australia)
Young Danehill stallion Catcher in the Rye featured at the metropolitan meeting at Wyong on Tuesday with Onceuponatime (2f Catcher in the Rye x Sweet Affair, by Mukaddamah) , who scored a strong win in the restricted juvenile event over 1350 metres. View article

Listed juvenile winner for Catcher

(3rd July 2008, Ireland)
Connections of Ryehill Dreamer (2c Catcher In The Rye-No Way, by Rainbows For Life) are considering sending the colt to the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita. View article

Group One Treble for Duke of Marmalade

(18th June 2008, Ireland)
The navy blue Coolmore colours were back in the winner’s circle at Royal Ascot on Wednesday carried to victory in the Group One Prince of Wales Stakes by in-form Danehill entire Duke of Marmalade( 4h Danehill x Love Me True, by Kingmambo). View article

Sixth Aussie Winner for Catcher in the Rye

(19th May 2008, Australia)
Catcher in the Rye posted his sixth individual Australian first crop winner when appropriately named gelding The Bargain (2g Catcher in the Rye x Love Me Sweet, by Daybreak Lover) won the Woodlands Star Kingdom Plate at Muswellbrook on Monday. View article

Stakes company next for impressive Catcher juvenile

(5th May 2008, Ireland)
A Leopardstown Listed contest is likely to be the next port of call for the Catcher In The Rye colt Ryehill Dancer (2c Catcher In The Rye-No Way, by Rainbows For Life) after his two-length maiden success for Tommy Stack at Gowran Park on Sunday. View article

Fifth Aussie Winner for Catcher in the Rye

(1st May 2008, Australia)
Catcher in the Rye posted his fifth Australian winner at the metropolitan meeting at Wyong on Thursday when talented filly Cloudcatcher (2f Catcher in the Rye x Cloudlet, by Zephyr Zip) won on debut. View article

Duke of Marmalade brings more G1 glory for Danehill

(28th April 2008, Ireland)
Danehill may no longer be with us but he won’t let us forget him as he showed in Europe’s first G1 of 2008 at Longchamp on Sunday. View article

First Stakes-Winner for Catcher in the Rye

(16th April 2008, Australia)
Promising young sire Catcher in the Rye posted his first Australian stakes-winner at Randwick on Wednesday when Rhyno Chaser captured the Listed AJC TL Baillieu Handicap. View article

Third Aussie Winner for Catcher in the Rye

(22nd February 2008, Australia)
Young Danehill shuttle sire Catcher in the Rye had his third Australian winner at Eagle Farm on Friday when Rye Catcher (2g Catcher in the Rye x Crash, by Last Tycoon) saluted in the 1300 metre juvenile maiden. View article

Catcher in the Rye Colt Tops NZB Festival Day One

(3rd February 2008, Australia)
A colt by Catcher in the Rye topped the opening session of the 2008 NZB Festival Yearling Sale in New Zealand on Sunday when knocked down to Dreambig Thoroughbreds for $80,000. View article

First Aussie Winner for Catcher in the Rye

(20th January 2008, Australia)
Catcher in the Rye posted his first Australian winner on Sunday when the Bob Haire trained filly Onethingatatime made a winning debut against older horses in a 1000 metres maiden at Port Macquarie. View article

Rosenreihe on mark for Catcher

(1st October 2007, Ireland)
Catcher In The Rye’s latest first-crop winner came at Dortmund in Germany on Sunday when trainer Peter Schiergen sent out Rosenreihe (2f Catcher In The Rye–Rosengeste, Be My Guest) to take a 1,600-metre maiden on her racecourse debut. View article

Winner No. 11 for Catcher

(13th August 2007, Ireland)
Catcher In The Rye was another first crop sire to enjoy a victory. View article

Third G1 in a row for amazing Danehill filly Fawn

(6th August 2007, Ireland)
There was only ever going to be one winner of the G1 Nassau Stakes and it was yet another G1 victory for Danehill as the remarkable Peeping Fawn kept on gamely to score by a length and a half. View article

Safari shines for Catcher

(23rd July 2007, Ireland)
The Lars Pearson-bred Safari Sunup (2c Catcher In The Rye-Buit Des Temps by Sadler’s Wells) became Catcher In The Rye’s latest winner when capturing a seven-furlong maiden at Lingfield on Saturday night. View article

Another Group One Winner for Danehill

(12th July 2007, Australia)
Legendary sire Danehill is powering his way through another hugely successful season in Europe adding another Group One winner to his tally in the shape of three year-old filly Simply Perfect. View article

Catcher In The Rye getting the winners on the board

(28th May 2007, Ireland)
It has been a great couple of weeks for the Coolmore stallions represented by their first crops. View article

Catcher has fourth winner

(24th May 2007, Ireland)
Catcher In The Rye had his fourth first-crop winner at Ayr on Wednesday when the Howard Johnson-trained Nine Stories (2c Catcher In The Rye-Irinatinvidio by Rudimentary) landed a six-furlong maiden by two and a half lengths. View article

Catcher filly is Ascot bound

(22nd May 2007, Ireland)
The first-crop Catcher In The Rye filly Eileen’s Violet (2f Catcher In The Rye-Brave Act by Catrail) is likely to next be seen out at Royal Ascot after landing a high-class Windsor conditions event on Monday evening. View article

Catcher In The Rye off the mark

(13th April 2007, Ireland)
Catcher In The Rye had his first winner when the Kevin Ryan-trained Kersaint (2c Catcher In The Rye - Quivala by Thunder Gulch) made a successful debut in a five-furlong maiden at Leicester. View article

DANEHILL HEADS COOLMORE'S 2006 CHAMPIONS

(16th January 2007, Ireland)
Much may have changed in the past couple of decades but some things are reassuringly consistent and nothing more so than that Coolmore will have stood European's champion sire. View article

FINAL DANEHILL FETCHES $HK7.5 MILLION

(11th December 2006, Ireland)
The curtain was brought down on a remarkable passage in thoroughbred breeding history when the very last son of world champion stallion Danehill was offered at public auction. View article