Juddmonte homebred Mirage Dancer (GB) (Frankel {GB}) has been removed from consideration for next Saturday's G1 Investec Derby. The son of dual Grade I winner Heat Haze (GB) (Green Desert) won his lone start at two and was fourth in the Listed Dee S. on May 12 while doing his best work late.
“He is fine and it is not that he has been working badly, but going into the Derby you want all the right bells to be ringing,” explained Khalid Abdullah's Racing Manager Teddy Grimthorpe. “He is still a work in progress and we still hope he will be top- class. I think with a horse like this, you have just got to give them a little bit of space to grow up and mature.”
“It is not impossible he will go to the King Edward VII at Royal Ascot,” Grimthorpe added.
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