Next stop Sandown for impressive Doncaster winner Dancing Gemini

Roger Teal will continue to follow the “Charyn route” with Dancing Gemini, who will head to Sandown for his next assignment.

Teal’s four-year-old contested several Group One races last season, but did not manage to get his head in front, in a similar vein to Roger Varian’s Charyn during his Classic year.

Just like Charyn, who went on to be last year’s champion miler with wins in the Lockinge, Queen Anne, Prix Jacques le Marois and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Champions Day, Dancing Gemini made his reappearance in Listed company at Doncaster and ran out a ready winner.

Sandown’s bet365 Mile on April 25 was Charyn’s springboard to success and Teal sees little reason to deviate from that.

“More than likely, if the ground is OK we will be going to Sandown,” said Teal.

“We’ll follow the Charyn route, it worked for him last year. We sort of mapped out his plan early to do it similar to Charyn. We might not mirror it fully, but certainly the first few races so that is the plan at the moment.

“The ground he got at Doncaster was just about perfect for him, he won’t mind good ground at all, he doesn’t have to have soft in the description, it was just nice to see him on nice ground where he could show his turn of foot.

“Hopefully they don’t over-water. I know we need rain, but knowing my luck it will break just before Sandown. The weather has been a bit abnormal, all last summer we were racing on soft ground, we’re probably having our summer now!”