Doll enjoys polytrack and mile and a half

An eye-catcher at the Curragh when eighth on her second start, in October, Dancing Doll enjoyed the step-up to a mile and a half when scoring at odds of 16/1 in the www.dundalkstadium.com Maiden.

Oisin Orr rode Creeping Ivy a winner for Tony Martin twice at this venue in recent times, and that jockey and trainer combined to good effect here again with the Newtown Anner Stud Farm-owned and bred Dancing Doll.

Available at bigger prices in earlier trading on this fourteen runner affair, the sweet-travelling Dancing Doll got the job done convincingly from the staying on The Paris Shrug

"She's improved and the penny has dropped. She needed time and she's come to herself now," said Martin.

"Oisin is great value for his 5lb. She's won a race now for breeding for the man that has her. I don't know whether he'll cover her now or what he'll do with her.

"He bought mares today at the sales for covering by Fascinating Rock so that's maybe where she will go too."

(GC & EM)