The cross of Dark Angel (IRE) with a Storm Cat line mare by a son of Giant’s Causeway is a group one producing one, and could be tried through Giant’s Causeway and sons such as Not This Time, Carpe Diem, Eskendereya, First Samurai and Creative Cause. In North America, this would suggest trying mares by such as War Front and sons, Hard Spun, Exchange Rate, Belong to Me and Langfuhr.ĭark Angel’s grandsire, Royal Applause, is a product of the Northern Dancer/Secretariat cross that also produced Storm Cat. In Europe this has principally been through mars from the Green Desert and Danehill branches, Danehill looking a particularly good fit here. The cross of Dark Angel (IRE) with mares from the Danzig line has proved to be a prolific one. Just another instance that shows how committed the legendary actor is to his craft.A three-time grade one-winning miler with earning of over $1,600,000, Raging Bull (FR) is by Dark Angel (IRE), a Northern Dancer-line stallion acknowledged as Europe’s leading sire of sprinters and milers. Amazingly, during the principal photography for Raging Bull, De Niro gained 27kg so that he could depict LaMotta’s later boxing career. Marty had his own reasons, and both of us just came together on the project.”ĭe Niro successfully gained the weight required to portray LaMotta in different phases of his life, which is why he claimed that the film was one of the hardest (yet most rewarding) that he had to prepare for. “I thought, ‘I’d like to see if I could gain that weight and do it.’ That was my interest in it. “And I thought just the graphic difference of being out of shape and being a young fighter, that was interesting to me,” De Niro added. I said, ‘Jesus, look what happened to him from then to now.'” He’d be standing right out there, and I’d be on the sidewalk, and he was overweight and this and that. I remember I used to see Jake LaMotta he used to work in a kind of strip place right on 7th Avenue in the 1940s. He said: “I kinda wanted to do a certain thing. De Niro had a particular biographical reason for wanting to portray LaMotta.

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