Dancing Rain [SEP] father
Dancer, stands at Coolmore Stud and also produced Choisir, a renowned sprinter. Her dam, Rain Flower, did not race and is a three-quarters sister to Epsom Derby winner Dr. Devious. Rain Flower has produced nine foals to date, and five of her offspring have gone on to win races.
Dancing Rain was consigned as a yearling by Camas Park Stud to the 2009 Goff's Orby Million and Sportsman's Yearling Sale in Ireland as lot ("Hip") number 4, where she was purchased by
his earliest years. As a boy of 5, he began taking tap dance lessons from Jean Lucille in his hometown. A few years later, he decided to make dancing his profession after his father, a college librarian, took him to see "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), a Hollywood film musical. Donald O'Connor, one of the stars of the film, became his "first, absolute idol." Inspired to emulate O'Connor's lyrical, balletic style of tap dancing, Cragun took up ballet