FURTHER STAKES SUCCESS FOR DANSILI

Taken from the EBN

The Gary Moore-trained Cusoon advertised his claims for next month’s Gr.3 Winter Derby by winning yesterday’s Listed Winter Derby Trial over the same course and distance. The five-year-old took the lead inside the last quarter mile and gamely held on from the fast-finishing Blue Bajan. The runner-up races with his head high, despite the presence of a noseband, and may well have got the verdict if he had lowered it.

Cusoon was winning for the seventh time, and is another Stakes winner by Juddmonte Farm’s talented young sire DANSILI, who had a terrific 2006. He sired the Gr.1 Arc and Grand Prix de Paris winner Rail Link, Gr.1 Matriarch Stakes heroine Price Tag (harshly disqualified after winning the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches), and the Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Passage of Time. His sons Illustrious Blue and Grantley Adams have both won valuable handicaps at Nad Al Sheba this month, and his daughter Dont Dili Dali was third in Friday’s Listed Balanchine Stakes.

DANSILI stands at Banstead Manor Stud at £30,000.

Date: 25 February 2007