Dehere (April 13, 1991 - c. May 16, 2014)Juvenile champion and sire Dehere dies at stud
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. He was bred and raced by Robert E. Brennan's Due Process Stable. Sired by Canadian Hall of Fame inductee and two-time North American Champion sire, Deputy Minister, he was out of the

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Sister Dot, a daughter of the U.S. Triple Crown champion

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. Racing at age two in 1993, Dehere joined

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(1914),

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(1916), and

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(2000) as the only horses to ever win all three

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events for two-year-olds: the Saratoga Special Stakes,

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and

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. Dehere's other major victory in 1993 came in the Grade I Champagne Stakes. He went into the

Breeders' Cup Juvenile The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is a Thoroughbred horse race for 2-year-old colts and geldings raced on dirt. It is held annually in late October or early November at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup ...

having won five of his six starts. In his only loss, he had finished second to

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in the

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. Breeders' Cup bettors made him a prohibitive favorite, bet down to odds of 7-10. In the race, at the three-quarter pole Dehere moved into third place but then faded and finished eighth to winner Brocco. Despite the loss, Dehere's 1993 performances earned him the

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. Dehere raced only twice as a three-year-old, winning the Fountain of Youth Stakes. A fracture of his right hind

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during training ended his racing career. Acquired by Ireland's

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, he was retired to

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duty at their

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. During his five years there, he was shuttled to Coolmore breeding operations in Australia before being sold in 1999 to the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association's Iburi Stallion Station in Hokkaidō, Japan. In 2005, Coolmore reacquired Dehere and he is again shuttling between Ashford Stud and Coolmore Australia.

Notable progeny

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References

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Dehere's pedigree and partial racing stats

Dehere at the Bloodhorse.com stallion directory

Dehere's Profile on Coolmore.com
1991 racehorse births 2014 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States Eclipse Award winners Thoroughbred family 2-o Chefs-de-Race