Camelot's Dancing Gemini Takes The Sandown Mile

He may not be Charyn, but Dancing Gemini (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) is doing a passable impression of last year's miling sensation as he completed the same Doncaster Mile-Sandown Mile double on Friday. Always travelling comfortably in the Group 2 feature under Rossa Ryan, the Roger Teal-trained 5-2 favourite took off passing the two pole and hit the line with 1 3/4 lengths to spare over Tamfana (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}), who was returning under a five-pound penalty.

Dancing Gemini, who had turned a corner in the Listed contest at Doncaster last month after a winless 2024 campaign which involved a second in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains and fourth behind Charyn in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, has either Newbury's G1 Lockinge Stakes or ParisLongchamp's G1 Prix d'Ispahan as options now.

“Today shows why we were pitching him into all the top Group races last year, but unfortunately we got a soft summer and I've always said he's not a soft-ground horse,” Teal said. “I was a little worried about the ground here today, as although he goes on it when you see him point his toe like he did at Doncaster it's something else. The d'Ispahan could be an opportunity–we want to get a Group 1 with him–and we have to do best by the horse. I'd love to go to Newbury but we will have to see.”

🚀 Very smooth from Dancing Gemini to plunder the @bet365 Mile pic.twitter.com/qBYpyV8pqz

— Racing TV (@RacingTV) April 25, 2025

Pedigree Notes
The winner is the first foal out of the owner-breeder's Lady Adelaide (Ire) (Australia {GB}), whose family features the 1978 G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Dancing Maid (Fr) and Rainbow Quest's G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud-winning sire Special Quest (Fr). Her 2-year-old filly Dancing Saxon (Ire) is predictably by Saxon Warrior (Jpn).

Friday, Sandown, Britain
BET365 MILE-G2, £125,000, Sandown, 4-25, 4yo/up, 8fT, 1:43.53, gd.
1–DANCING GEMINI (IRE), 129, c, 4, by Camelot (GB)
     1st Dam: Lady Adelaide (Ire), by Australia (GB)
     2nd Dam: Confusion (Fr), by Anabaa
     3rd Dam: Red Stella (Fr), by Rainbow Quest
1ST GROUP WIN. O-Fishdance Ltd; B-Fishdance (IRE); T-Roger Teal; J-Rossa Ryan. £70,888. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Fr, 12-4-2-0, $488,121. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Tamfana (Ger), 131, f, 4, Soldier Hollow (GB)–Tres Magnifique (Fr), by Zoffany (Ire). (€20,000 Ylg '22 BBAGS). O-Quantum Leap Racing VIII & Friends; B-Gestut Etzean U H H Rodenburg (GER); T-David Menuisier. £26,875.
3–Cicero's Gift (GB), 129, g, 5, Muhaarar (GB)–Terentia (GB), by Diktat (GB).
TDN Rising Star. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (32,000gns Ylg '21 TATOCT). O-Rosehill Racing; B-Mrs F S Williams (GB); T-Charles Hills. £13,450.
Margins: 1 3/4, 1 1/4, HF. Odds: 2.50, 5.50, 16.00.
Also Ran: Alcantor (Fr), Haatem (Ire), Cash (Ire), Ice Max (GB), Lead Artist (GB).