McLaughlin aiming high with Cavorting, Dancing House

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – While trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is hoping Clothes Fall Off can get her first stakes win in Saturday’s $125,000 Correction at Aqueduct, he is eyeing bigger prizes for two of his stakes-winning filly-and-mare sprinters.

Cavorting, the winner of the Grade 1 Test last summer, is working toward the Grade 1 Madison at Keeneland on April 9. Cavorting, third as the favorite in the Grade 1 La Brea at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, has breezed three times at Palm Meadows.

Dancing House, who beat Clothes Fall Off by 1 3/4 lengths in the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie, is “possible” for the Madison as well, McLaughlin said.

Dancing House recently relocated from New York to Palm Meadows in Florida, in part, McLaughlin said, to be closer to her regular blacksmith, who worked on Dancing House prior to her Barbara Fritchie victory.

McLaughlin said if Dancing House doesn’t make the Madison, she likely will be pointed to the Grade 1 Humana Distaff at Churchill Downs on May 7.

◗ By the Moon, the Grade 1 Frizette winner of 2014, worked five furlongs in 1:03.55 over the Belmont Park training track on Thursday. It was her eighth work since returning to training following a third-place finish to Cavorting in last year’s Test.

Trainer Michelle Nevin said there’s “nothing available right now” for By the Moon. She may have to wait for the Grade 3, $200,000 Distaff Handicap at Aqueduct on April 17.