MONASHEE MOUNTAIN (USA) filly Dance For Us won her first stakes event in collecting the Bison City Stakes (8.5f), the second leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara for three-year-old fillies, at Woodbine on June 28.   She ran 1:44.59 on the polytrack to narrowly defeat Flashy Got Even and with stakes winner High Mist 1.5 lengths astern in third. Out of the Apalachee mare Heart Beat (a sister to Canadian Champion Older Mare Dance For Donna), Dance For Us is now likely to contest the third leg of the series, the Wonder Where Stakes at Woodbine on July 25.  

  Her win highlights the good form being shown by Monashee Mountain (Danzig-Prospectors Delite by Mr. Prospector) runners in both hemispheres. Based at Racetree, Innisplain, on a fee of $8800 in 2009, Monashee Mountain has had 68 winners of $1.619m in Aust/NZ this season including stakes winner Monte Verde (ex Oro Verde by Rorys Jester) and stakes placed Champara (ex Cosima by Clear Choice (USA)). His oldest Australian-bred are six-year-olds and hes had 133 winners from 214 starters (62.1%) led by the Stradbroke Handicap-Gr.1 winner La Montagna of $6.438m in the southern hemisphere and 114 winners (7SW) in the northern hemisphere.

Permalink| Jun 30, 2009

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