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Tap Dance City won two of his nine races a three-year-old in 2000, but failed to win in six races in 2001. He emerged as a top-class performer in 2002 when he won the Grade 3 Asahi
Challenge Cup. In December 2002, as an 85/1 outsider, he produced his best performance up to that point when he finished
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Lincoln, with
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Australia. Tap Dance City went into the lead from the start and opened up a seven length advantage with five furlongs left to run. He was never challenged and won by a record margin of nine lengths from the
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Breeders' Stallion Station. To date he had made no impact as a sire of winners. He was "put out of stud" in Japan on 12 May 2011.
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on 3 October. Starting at odds of 10/1 he disputed the lead until the turn into the straight, but faded in the closing stages and finished seventeenth of the nineteen runners behind
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for the 22nd running of the Japan Cup at Tokyo. Apart from the
Japanese contenders such as Symboli Kris S and Neo Universe, the race attracted international challengers including
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As an eight-year-old, Tap Dance City won the Kinko Sho for a third time but finished unplaced in his remaining four races.
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In 2004, Tap Dance City won the Kinko Sho for a second time before starting 5/2 favourite for the
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taking fourth ahead of That's The Plenty. In autumn, Tap Dance City was sent to Europe to contest the
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624:"Pleasant Tap Stud Record"
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456:Never Knock
443:Sun Colony
437:Flower Bowl
425:His Majesty
388:Stud record
379:Heart's Cry
375:Delta Blues
282:Arima Kinen
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798:Categories
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482:Never Bend
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