Timely Update for Dancer’s Tale Prior to NZB Sale

Catalogued in New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale is Dancer’s Tale (NZ) (Tale of the Cat), winner of the $17,500 Rating 65 Gazley Handicap (1200m) at Trentham on Saturday.

Dancer's Tale (NZ) to be sold at NZB's National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale.

Being sold as a racing and breeding proposition in the Racehorse section of the Sale, Dancer’s Tale is entered at Lot 403 and will be offered by Curraghmore Stud on behalf of Adrian Clark’s Challenge No 1 Syndicate.

“She is a stakes winning daughter of Tale of the Cat, from a high class stakes producing family, and she is a sound racehorse in winning form,” commented Curraghmore Stud’s Gordon Cunningham.

“She was well rated physically as a yearling and I’m looking forward to seeing her in the next few days when she arrives at Curraghmore.”

The four-year-old mare commenced racing as a two-year-old, winning on debut, and won her first stakes race at her third start in the Listed Welcome Stakes when trained by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman.

Dancer’s Tale was also stakes placed in the Listed Wellesley Stakes as a two-year-old and competed in New Zealand’s richest race, the $1m Karaka Million. She accumulated four wins in her 21 starts and has placed in a further four races, now trained by Wayne Marshment.

Commencing Saturday’s race from barrier 2 with Lisa Allpress riding, Dancer’s Tale settled one off the rail as Pass It On (NZ) (Howbaddouwantit) led the way. Dancer’s Tale rallied through runners in the straight, driving to the lead to win by a head over Pass It On in second place.

Owned by the Challenge No.1 Syndicate, managed by Adrian Clark, the four-year-old mare has earned $75,460 in prizemoney to date.

Bred by Graham & Helen-Gaye Bax & Go Bloodstock New Zealand Ltd, the daughter of Tale of the Cat is out of winning mare Pineau (Carnegie), who is a half-sister stakes placegetters Irion (Danroad) and Octapussy (Octagonal). Octapussy is the dam of stakes winners Pussy Willow (O’Reilly), winner of the Group 2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes, and Pussy O’Reilly (O’Reilly), winner of the Listed Flying Handicap.

To view the catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale can be viewed online here.