Dance With Her has joined illustrious company alongside champion sprinter Black Caviar and Group One winning mare Aloha as the winners of six races in Victoria this season.
But the trio have been outgunned by Black Caviar’s stablemate Mr Make Believe whose win at Caulfield on Saturday took him to seven and the top of the Victorian leader board for 2010-11.
The David Brideoake-trained Dance With Her also won at Caulfield on Saturday, claiming her sixth win in Saturday’s Life&Style Cup (2000m).
Dance With Her has been a revelation for Brideoake who is now regretting she is racing in winter and not spring.
“I’ve probably got her in at the wrong time of the year because I would love to run her in something like the Matriarch at the end of the carnival, but she is doing what she’s doing now and you can’t make predictions so we will just keep her going and space her runs,” Brideoake said.
Dance With Her had only won once before this season but this campaign she has gone to a new level with wins at Moonee Valley (2) and Caulfield.
She also won at Sale in August, Bendigo in March and Kyneton in May.
“She’s got a great constitution and thrives on racing,” Brideoake said.
Dwayne Dunn posted his third win on Dance With her who settled in the first four and said she was itching to get going 800 metres from home.
“She was ready to go at the top of hill because she thought the home straight was down the side,” Dunn said.
“She had a bit of a bump with Peter Mertens (Makeadreamcometrue) who put her off stride for a couple of strides but, without giving her her a head, she really lifted nicely off the back off them and put them away.”
Dance With Her scored by long neck from Abitofado and Picalero was 2-1/2 lengths away third.
Mr Make Believe has won four straight returning from a six week break in May.
His win on Saturday took his trainer Peter Moody to 97-1/2 Melbourne wins for the season and within reach of a century.
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