Jimmie, Star Writer

COME DANCE WITH ME should blitz rivals with speed in tomorrow's 1400-metre Pick-3 Super Challenge, the second hurdle in the Supreme Ventures Limited Jamaica Two-Year-Old Series.

Champion trainer Wayne DaCosta's POLLY B has emerged as COME DANCE WITH ME's main threat with eye-catching exercise spins and a strong win against speedy TURN ME LOOSE in the 1300-metre Juvenile Stakes.

POLLY B's Superstakes Day win, 1:18.3 over 1300 metres, with splits of 22.4, 46.1, and 1:11.1, has to be measured against a fast track that afternoon, which saw another two-year-old, TRACKING THE STORM, post 1:06.4 in the third event.

bottom-of-the-barrel claimer

All the races that afternoon were exceedingly fast, suggesting the track was running at least a full second, possibly faster, than normal. In the opening event, bottom-of-the-barrel claimer MEROVINGIAN QUEEN posted splits of 23.2, 47.1 and 1:13.4 in a 1300-metre race.

On a normal track, October 20, COME DANCE WITH ME ripped 22.3 and 45.4, stopping the clock in 1:13.3 for her Cash Pot Trophy win.

DaCosta believes the final time of the Cash Pot Trophy suggests COME DANCE WITH ME was slowing down inside the last furlong.

"She looked like she was coming back in the last half furlong of her last race. So let's see," said the 13-time champion trainer.

However, COME DANCE WITH ME's trainer, Dwight Chen, is confident the filly will get seven furlongs even though she has not gone past six furlongs in two starts.

"Seven furlongs is really the top end of sprinting. It's not a distance race and I am pretty sure she will be a top-class sprinter," he said.

Chen has kept the figure-eight with which he fitted COME DANCE WITH ME for her Cash Pot win and she worked impressively in the equipment two Saturdays ago, posting 1:14.3 in a six-furlong spin.

Though her training partner, stablemate LADYLIKE, was injured in that gallop and won't race again, COME DANCE WITH ME worked Sunday morning and posted 1:01.0 for a flat five-furlong workout.

first time

Though POLLY B was quicker that morning, 1:00.3, putting away stablemate ALSO CORRECT, that can't be compared to COME DANCE WITH ME keeping company with LADYLIKE, the winner of last year's Cash Pot Trophy and consistent overnight allowance sprinter.

DaCosta, also has ALI BABA in the event. He will race on Lasix for the first time and could be asked to keep COME DANCE WITH ME honest after losing twice to the filly

"ALI BABA, looks held by COME DANCE WITH ME, on paper, but he seems to work much better than he races," DaCosta noted.

"He had gone 1:13.0 for six furlongs when he won and returned to lose by eight lengths in the same time. He ran no race at all and might have bled.

"What we have done is put him on Lasix and will try a tongue tie on him. Hopefully, that will make a change," the champion trainer explained.

The stars, however, seem aligned for COME DANCE WITH ME. She has class, speed and has won twice from post-position one. She enjoys a two-kilo sex allowance and her jockey, Dane Nelson, has been riding every mount as if his life depends on it, intent on securing a third championship at Caymanas Park.