Hot Dixie Chick (foaled March 31, 2007) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background

Hot Dixie Chick was foaled on March 31, 2007, at Gerry Dilger's Dromoland Farm near

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. She was sired by Dixie Union, a son of the stakes winner

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, and she is out of the mare Above Perfection, by the Irish-bred stallion In Excess, making her a half sister to 2017 Kentucky Derby winner

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Racing career

2009: two-year-old season

Hot Dixie Chick broke her maiden in her second race, setting what was then the

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track record for 5 furlongs on dirt in the process. In that race, she defeated future

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winner Tapitsfly. She then went on to win the 6-furlong, Grade III Schuylerville Stakes at

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. In her next outing, she won the Grade I, 7-furlong Spinaway Stakes in stakes-record time of 1:22.28.

2010: three-year-old season

Hot Dixie Chick raced three times as a three-year-old. Her first race was a win in the 6-furlong Prima Donna Stakes at

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on March 20, which she won by 5 3/4 lengths. She then finished her 3-year-old season with third-place finishes in both the Eight Belles Stakes and Winning Colors Stakes at Churchill Downs.

Offspring

Hot Dixie Chick was bred to

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in 2011, and produced a colt named Union Jackson the following year on February 7, 2012. Trained by

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, Union Jackson placed 3rd in the Aristides Stakes at

on June 4, 2016. She has also produced Marcy Darcy, a filly by

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born March 22, 2014, and an unnamed filly by

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in 2015.

Pedigree

Hot Dixie Chick is inbred 3 × 4 to Northern Dancer, meaning Northern Dancer appears once in the 3rd generation and once in the 4th generation of her pedigree.

References

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