Dance Step waltzes to maiden-breaking score at Monmouth Park

Bucchero’s stock continues to rise.

With yesterday’s maiden-breaking victory by Dance Step at Monmouth Park, the freshman sire by Kantharos now has four runners who have won and placed in their two starts, two stakes-placed horses, three who have finished second and one who has been third. He’s third on Florida’s first-crop money list with progeny earnings of $199,400.

Dance Step finished second in her first start but still went to the post at odds of 7-1 in the $45,000 maiden special. She bobbled slightly leaving the gate with Samuel Marin riding, then settled into fifth place in the field of eight. On the turn, Dance Step put it in another gear, making up six lengths in the stretch and getting up at the wire by a length, clocked in :59.07 for the five furlongs.

The $27,000 OBS April 2-year-old bred by Andy and Susy Cant paid $16.60 and earned a check for $27,000, lifting her two-race total to $36,000.