Unbeaten youngster by A Rocknroll Dance

Smart A Rocknroll Dance two-year-old Jamaican Rock stretched his unbeaten winning sequence to three when he led throughout in a heat of harness racing’s Alabar Golden Nursery at Globe Derby Park.

The gelding rated a career-best 1:57 for 1800 metres with the last 800 in 57.6 seconds.

He will be the horse to beat in the Group 2 $20,000 Final next Saturday night (October 29).

On the subject of winning streaks, two other progeny of the Queensland-based A Rocknroll Dance added to their successes last week.

Racey Rach, a New Zealand-bred four-year-old mare, made it 10 in a row with a 1:56 romp at Saratoga Raceway, New York, while Lynryd Skymryd, another ex-Kiwi, remained undefeated in three attempts on Australian soil following his end-to-end win at Launceston.

Other recent Australian winners by A Rocknroll Dance included Rockinthecity, a 1:58.1 victor at Maryborough, and Rocknroll Me, who posted his fourth win at Bunbury.

A Rocknroll Dance is enjoying his best-ever season in Australia with 159 individual winners and progeny earnings of $3.3 million. He is in eighth position on the all aged list and seventh on the three-year-old premiership.

The royally bred A Rocknroll Dance at the Somerset Farms stud, of Pete and Chantal Turpin, Patrick Estate, 45 kilometres west of Brisbane.

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink