Background
Dubai Millennium was foaled on 20 March 1996 at the Dalham Hall Stud. He was by the Mr. Prospector stallion Seeking The Gold, out of the Prix de Pomone winner Colorado Dancer. Apart from Dubai Millennium, Seeking the Gold sired the winners of 27 Group One/Grade I races including Pleasant Home, Jazil and Bob and John Colorado Dancer was a daughter of Fall Aspen, a highly successful broodmare who produced eight winners of Group/Graded races including the Preakness Stakes winner Timber Country.
Dubai Millennium was originally sent into training with David Loder at Newmarket and was ridden in all but one of his races by Frankie Dettori.
He was initially named Yaazer1 (meaning "white gazelle"), but Sheikh Mohammed, owner of Godolphin, renamed the colt "Dubai Millennium". after he was identified2 as the most promising of his two-year-old colts.
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