With three victories from three tries over the 1800m trip, Duncan Howells’ Lyrical Dance produced a courageous front-running effort to win the R150 000 World Sports Betting Listed Scarlet Lady at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Friday evening.
The feature was a triumph of tactics and tuning for the Hollywoodbets-sponsored Ashburton-based Duncan Howells, who gave jockey Muzi Yeni the mandate to go forward after the wind direction swung around earlier in the evening.
Muzi Yeni keeps Lyrical Dance at her task to beat Jacqueline (Sean Veale) in an exciting finish (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
The well-bred 4yo filly, a R1 million National Yearling Sale graduate, had not had things all her own way at recent starts, but she stays well and went ahead and kept rolling with the aid of the tail wind. Lyrical Dance won a gutsy race to stay on long enough at 15-2 to beat the evergreen 6yo Jacqueline (16-1) by a half length in a time of 113,15 secs.
The tote favourite in an open race, Princess Anastasia (33-10) stayed on well for third, a further half length back.
Stablemate to the winner, Twicethequality was a further length back, with Aqua Sulis, the third of the Howells trio running a solid race in seventh – and a further length back.
Owned by Dave Maclean, Lyrical Dance was bred by the high-=riding Maine Chance Farms and is a daughter of Vercingetorix (Silvano) out of Gr1 Garden Province Stakes winner Lyrical Linda (Jallad).
Lyrical Dance has won 4 races with 6 places from 15 starts. She took her stakes tally to R297 125.
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