Itsallgreektome was an American

United States

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 Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

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 Champion

Eclipse Award

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 racehorse

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. Sired by Sovereign Dancer

Sovereign Dancer

Sovereign Dancer was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as a sire of two American Classic Race winners...

, who also sired Preakness Stakes

Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...

 winners Gate Dancer

Gate Dancer

Gate Dancer was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as a winner of an American Classic Race and for his part in a thrilling three-horse finish in the inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Classic....

 and Louis Quatorze

Louis Quatorze (horse)

Louis Quatorze is an American thoroughbred stallion racehorse. He was sired by Sovereign Dancer, who in turn was a son of the great 1964 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, Northern Dancer out of the mare, On To Royalty....

, he was out of the mare Sans Supplement, a daughter of Grey Dawn, who was a multiple stakes winner in France

France

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The winner of top stakes races in 1990, he ran second to Royal Academy

Royal Academy (horse)

Royal Academy is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse bred in the United States best known as the winner of the 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile in which famed British jockey Lester Piggott came out of retirement to ride the colt to victory....

 in the 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile

Breeders' Cup Mile

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 and his performances over the year earned him American Champion Male Turf Horse honors. In 1991, Itsallgreektome equaled the Keeneland Race Course record for nine furlongs on grass with a winning time of 1:48.42. That year, he was second in the Breeders' Cup Turf

Breeders' Cup Turf

The Breeders' Cup Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for three-year-olds and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships. The race's current title sponsor is Emirates Airlines.The forerunner...

 to winner Miss Alleged

Miss Alleged

Miss Alleged was an French Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Champion in the United States and one of only two fillies to ever win the Breeders' Cup Turf....

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A gelding

Gelding

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, Itsallgreektome was retired to Cardiff Farm in Creston

Creston, California

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, California

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. He was euthanized on February 15, 2007, due to the infirmities of old age.