Creole Dancer was a tribute to all of the small breeders in the racing industry, the ‘little guys”, who didn’t have the resources to play the game at the highest level. His mother was claimed at the Meadowlands in New Jersey for $6,500 in the fall of 1981. She broke down in that race, requiring surgery prior to the van ride to Texas. At the New Bolton Center, a Florida equine surgeon, Dr. Stephen Selway, performed an arthroscopic procedure, for which he was one of the pioneers in North America.
After shipping to Texas, E. Cee Miss was bred to a son of Native Dancer, Dancing Dervish, in the spring of 1982. The stallion stood in North Texas for a fee of $2,500.
E. Cee Miss foaled a grey colt, Creole Dancer in the following spring, 1983. That was the beginning of almost a fairytale racing career that impacted all of his connections.
In his two-year old year, he won 3 races at Louisiana Downs, including the $150,000 Friendship Stakes and was named Champion Two Year Old of the meet.
The next year was a heart breaker. He required 3 surgeries for bone chips, which cost him his entire three year old season.
At the age of 4, in 1987, he came roaring back to the races, winning an allowance race at Oaklawn Park, followed by a win in the Carousel Handicap, setting a stakes record of 108.3, which still stands. He then shipped to Omaha, Nebraska, where he won the Ak-Sar-Ben Handicap, defeating 9 stakes winners, several of which were winners of graded stakes.
In the spring of 1988, before retiring to stud duty, he won the Gold Cup Stakes at Delta Downs, ending a racing career in which he earned almost $250,000. He went on to a aucessful stallion breeding career at Alamo Stud Farm, in Lytle, Texas.
After shipping to Texas, E. Cee Miss was bred to a son of Native Dancer, Dancing Dervish, in the spring of 1982. The stallion stood in North Texas for a fee of $2,500.
E. Cee Miss foaled a grey colt, Creole Dancer in the following spring, 1983. That was the beginning of almost a fairytale racing career that impacted all of his connections.
In his two-year old year, he won 3 races at Louisiana Downs, including the $150,000 Friendship Stakes and was named Champion Two Year Old of the meet.
The next year was a heart breaker. He required 3 surgeries for bone chips, which cost him his entire three year old season.
At the age of 4, in 1987, he came roaring back to the races, winning an allowance race at Oaklawn Park, followed by a win in the Carousel Handicap, setting a stakes record of 108.3, which still stands. He then shipped to Omaha, Nebraska, where he won the Ak-Sar-Ben Handicap, defeating 9 stakes winners, several of which were winners of graded stakes.
In the spring of 1988, before retiring to stud duty, he won the Gold Cup Stakes at Delta Downs, ending a racing career in which he earned almost $250,000. He went on to a aucessful stallion breeding career at Alamo Stud Farm, in Lytle, Texas.