Kingston Town Classic challenge for brilliant three-year-old filly Watch Me Dance

Leading Great Southern trainer Steve Wolfe believes star filly Watch Me Dance can land him a maiden Group 1 title in the Kingston Town Classic (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday. Wolfe has been represented by Red Can Man in the two $1 million feature races in the Masters carnival so far but has been unable to win his first Group 1 race. However, the long-time Albany horseman believes Watch Me Dance can break that drought, as the brilliant three-year-old runs in her maiden Group 1 after Group 3 and Group 2 victories in her past two starts. Watch Me Dance made her debut just over 10 months ago but has already tasted black type success. She appears set to be a major player in the Kingston Town Classic carrying the minimum weight of 50kg and will jump from barrier five. The I’m All The Talk filly sired at Mungrup Stud is currently an $9 hope on TABtouch and Wolfe is extremely bullish on his star’s chances in the big one. “She’s a second-to-none chance, she hasn’t done anything wrong at any stage of her career and she has a nice gate, plenty of weight relief and I’m sure she will be in the finish,” Wolfe said. “You would hope she would finish top five in that sort of race, you just keep your fingers crossed. “It would be nice for the money, for the filly and for all concerned. “It doesn’t matter who owns these sort of horses, when they get to this stage it’s nice to win a race like this.” Watch Me Dance is hoping to repeat the same feat as star filly Arcadia Queen, who won the Group 3 Champion Fillies, Group 2 WA Guineas and then the Group 1 Kingston Town in 2018. Last year’s Kingston Town winner Kay Cee also came from Great Southern’s Mungrup Stud and was a three-year-old filly when she won. Wolfe said the race was stacked with quality horses but he was confident Watch Me Dance was among the winning hopes. “I thought Cup Night was a chance and Too Close The Sun obviously but we meet them nine kilos less than them — we should be hard to toss I think,” he said. “We are never that confident, but we hope. “She’s in wonderful condition, she’s as good as she was last start, so I’m sure that we will be hard to beat. “I think we settle probably midfield from the gate and hopefully we can get some luck and run past them.” The race will be run at 4.50pm on Saturday.