The Big Dance to resume at Moonee Valley

Monday 27 July 2015, 3:48pm

The Big Dance has raced just once but she has already delivered trainer Danny Curran and the filly's other owners a dream result.

Curran is now eyeing feature spring carnival races with the $750 buy who banked $250,000 when she won the VOBIS Gold Rush on debut at Bendigo in March.

The Big Dance is set to resume on the opening day of the new season at Moonee Valley on Saturday in a 1000m race for three-year-old fillies.

The sprint has attracted 15 nominations.

"Whatever she does from here on in, she's certainly given us a thrill that you couldn't replicate and we're hoping she will be able to go on for the future," Curran said.

"But what she's already done has been pretty special."

Curran, who has half a dozen horses in work, gave The Big Dance an exhibition gallop at Bendigo last week and said the daughter of Oamaru Force was on target for her resumption on Saturday.

The Big Dance will be nominated for the Group One Thousand Guineas this spring but Curran is unsure whether she will stretch out to 1600m.

He expects to get an early guide on her spring prospects on Saturday.

"I think this race is going to tell us a fair bit," he said.

"We're hoping that she's up to running in a race like the Danehill Stakes and depending on how she would go in the Danehill would tell us what to do next.

"She'll be entered in the Thousand Guineas and a few other races, but she's a pretty fast horse. I don't know whether she's going to be too brilliant for that distance.

"She's got to prove she's up to these classy fillies too. She looked pretty good (on debut) but two-year-old form has got to translate to three-year-old form, for all of them."

Stakes winners Haybah and Thurlow are among the nominations for Saturday's race along with debut winners Petits Filous and Stream Ahead.

"It looks like being a pretty fast race, so it's going to be pretty interesting how she stacks up," Curran said.

– AAP

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