Do Danehill/Sadlers Wells/Northern Dancers TB's make good eventers?

Not overly hot on TB breeding, but starting to learn a bit more as I'm now working at a yard where they breed a few racehorses - Danehills tend to be sprinters rather than jumpers, although the stallion Indian Danehill is standing as a NH stallion this year, but our Danbird (Danehill) colt is definitely strongest over 5/6f - I'm sure you will get more knowledgeable people giving you a more definite answer though!
 
Not an expert by any means but I tend to steer clear of any Northern Dancer lines.
IME the flat bred horses tend to have more expression and quality in their movement, whereas the the NH horses may be more workman like.
Any horse can make a decent eventer provided they want to be, so perhaps a bit of research into attitude rather than aptitude ;)
 
Our horse has Danehill/Danzig in her pedigree, she would positively excel at Eventing if only she had a rider who could provide the right type of leadership for her. At home she jumps anything and everything beautifully, never refuses, shows good form etc, she schools beautifully too but at competitions she just falls apart, she needs a steady, ballz of steel type of rider to get her through it and she'd be just fab.
 
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There are some fantastic TB pedigree gurus on the Chronicles of the Horse forum - especially Vineyridge - so it might be worth posting on there and Horsebreeders Forum as well so you get the widest possible range of opinions!

We bought a Danehill Dancer gelding off the racecourse and he could jump the most amazing heights and was extremely fast over a short distance, but was tricky temperamentally. I'm not sure that he would ever have had the stamina for eventing. Quite a few people will say that Northern Dancer close up is not great in an eventing pedigree - but the challenge is to find a TB pedigree that doesn't have both or either ND and Sadlers Wells in it!
 
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