Dancing House might skip Interborough

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – When Kiaran McLaughlin nominated Dancing House to Saturday’s $100,000 Interborough Stakes, he thought it would be the ideal spot to bring a filly without any allowance conditions back off a layoff. Little did he know that the race would come up like a graded stakes, with the likes of La Verdad, Room for Me, and Princess Violet.

Thus, McLaughlin said Thursday he might look elsewhere for Dancing House to make her first start since April, when she won an allowance race at Keeneland. She was sidelined thereafter due to an ankle chip that needed to be removed.

“We didn’t quite know it was going to come up that tough, so we might not run,” McLaughlin said. “She’s graded stakes-placed and hasn’t ever won a stakes, so we’re just trying to win a stakes with her, but we don’t need to try and win this one.”

A product of Grade 1 winners Tapit and Tout Charmant, Dancing House finished third in the Grade 1 Spinaway and third in the Grade 3 Miss Grillo as a 2-year-old. McLaughlin said that how Dancing House fares wherever she runs over the next three months will determine whether she races the entire year or is bred later this season.