SPEED machine The Big Dance will take another step towards the spring carnival when she gallops between races at next Wednesday’s Bendigo Jockey Club meeting.
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Trainer Danny Curran has Group races in mind for his flying filly, who made national headlines in March when at her first race start she won the $250,000 VOBIS Gold Rush at Bendigo in near track record time.
“As long as the weather is okay, she will gallop between races next Wednesday,’’ Curran said of The Big Dance on Wednesday.
“If everything goes well she’ll run in a three-year-old fillies race over 1000m at Moonee Valley on August 1.
“That will be her starting point and if she does what we hope she’ll do there, then we’ll target stakes races.
“The Quezette Stakes at Caulfield is a fortnight later and then the main goal is the Danehill Stakes (1200m) down the straight at Flemington on September 12.”
Curran was quietly confident The Big Dance wouldn’t be restricted to 1000m and 1200m races this campaign.
“The Danehill Stakes run will tell us whether we can extend her to the Thousand Guineas (1600m) or whether we should stay in sprint races,’’ Curran said.
“She’s put on 38kg which was nice and she’s thickened up nicely. We’d like it if she could get out over 1400m and 1600m and her breeding suggests she can get over more ground.
“Her third dam was an Oaks winner and the filly doesn’t look like a sprinting type. She’s longer and carriers her head lower like a horse who would get over more ground.”
