Dixieland Band is an American

United States

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 Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

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 racehorse

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. He was bred by Bayard Sharp, a prominent and highly respected Delaware

Delaware

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 horseman and president of The Blood-Horse Inc.

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  Out of the Sharp-owned multiple stakes winning mare, Mississippi Mud, he was a son of the 20th century's most influential sire, Northern Dancer

Northern Dancer

Northern Dancer was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history"....

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Racing under the colors of Mrs. Sharp, Dixieland Band won the 1983 Pennsylvania Derby

Pennsylvania Derby

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 at age three and at age four, the Massachusetts Handicap

Massachusetts Handicap

The Massachusetts Handicap, frequently referred to as the "MassCap", is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and up held annually at Suffolk Downs in Boston, Massachusetts. It is currently an Ungraded stakes race run over a distance of 9 furlongs on dirt. The race received...

. He was retired after the 1984 racing season to stand at his owner's stud farm in Middletown, Delaware

Middletown, Delaware

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A very successful stallion

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, as of early 2008 Dixieland Band has sired 114 stakes race winners and 43 Graded stakes race

Graded stakes race

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 winners of which five have each earned more than $1 million. In addition, Dixieland Band is the damsire of two Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby

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 winners, Monarchos

Monarchos

Monarchos is a stallion Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Kentucky Derby in 2001. This thoroughbred's time was 1:59.97 for 1¼ miles. This is the second-fastest winning time in the race's history, behind 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, who ran 1:59...

  winning in 2001 and Street Sense

Street Sense (horse)

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  in 2007. He is also the damsire of the 2007 Australian Champion Stayer

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, Delta Blues

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. Including, Big Truck.

Owner Bayard Sharp's daughter Sarah is married to prominent Kentucky

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 horseman, William S. Farish III. Mr. Sharp died in 2002 and Dixieland Band stood at the Farish family's Lane's End Farm

Lane's End Farm

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 in Versailles

Versailles, Kentucky

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. Among his progeny were Drum Taps

Drum Taps (horse)

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, Bowman's Band, Citidancer, Dixie Brass

Dixie Brass

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, and Dixie Union.

At the end of the 2008 breeding season, Dixieland Band was pensioned from stud duties. Dixieland Band was euthanized due to the infirmities of old age on April 7, 2010.