Jaber Abdullah’s Dancing on the Grass (GB) (Cracksman {GB} –Dance The Dream {GB}, by Sir Percy {GB}) became her fifth male freshman winner (by Frankel {GB}) at launch on June 10, wore seven soccer cleats at Sandown in the previous single start and registered Dalham Hall Stud resident’s first winning bet in the EBF Star S program. . The final winner was forced to take his place in the initial trades and race backwards through early fractions. Heading straight into the line, she wobbled to finish second shortly after passing the quarter-mile marker and continued in a determined style of refusal. Fairy Cross (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) is 3/4 of the near-line length, with the duo pulling an obvious six lengths above the rest.
Dance In The Grass, half-sister to Ulysses’ pony (Ire) and Too Darn Hot’s weaning pony (GB), is the first of three ponies produced by Listed Daisy Warwick S. Third Dance The Dream (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}), she is half sister to G3 locator Dee S. Rasmy (GB) (Red Ransom) after winning it shares G1 Vodafone Oaks Shadow Dancing (GB) (Unfuwain). Shadow Dancing is the daughter of Cheshire Oaks and G2 runner-up Park Hill S. Salchow (GB) (Niniski), she is the half-sister to G3 winner’s son Chester Vase Gulland (GB) (Unfuwain).
Thursday, Sandown, England
EUROPEAN BLOOD NEWS EBF STAR S.-Listed£40,500, Sandown, 7-21, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:30.16, g/f.
first-DANCE IN THE GRASS (GB), 128, f, 2, by Cracksman (GB)
Beat One: Dance The Dream (GB) (SP-Eng), by Sir Percy (GB)
2nd Dam: Shadow Dancing (GB), by Unfuwain
3rd Dam: Salchow (GB), by Niniski
WIN THE BLACK 1ST. (57,000gns Ylg ’21 TATOCT). O-Jaber Abdullah; B-Minster Stud & Mrs H Dalgety (GB); T-Charlie & Mark Johnston; J-Silvestre de Sousa. 22,968 pounds. Lifetime record: 2-2-0-0, $34,261.
2-Fairy Cross (Ire)128, f, 2, Dubawi (Ire) –Devonshire (Ire), by Fast Company (Ire). TYPE 1 BLACK. O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby. 8,708 pounds.
3–Lady Alara (Ire)128, f, 2, Invincible Spirit (Ire) –Red Halo (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). TYPE 1 BLACK. (75,000€ Wlg ’20 GOFNOV; 110,000gns RNA Ylg’ 21 TATOCT). O-Alara Investments Ltd; B-High Roller (IRE); T-Charles Hill. £4,358.
Margins: 3/4, 6, NK. Odds: 2.75, 3.00, 8.00.
Also Ran: Bet Me (Ire), Inanna (Ire), Mlle Chanel (GB), Ipanema Princess (Ire), Ibiza Love (Ire), Pure Gold (GB), Tagline (GB).
