“THE horse came well recommended, the sire looks the business, and I just hope he’ll be lucky” was the immediate post-sale comment by Gordon Elliott who had watched Eddie O’Leary see off all opposition at £300,000 for He Can’t Dance, a four-year-old son of Jukebox Jury who topped the Goffs Aintree Sale following racing on Thursday.

Led out unsold at the Derby Sale last year at €45,000, He Can’t Dance won on his debut at the end of March at Monksgrange, and he is the first successful offspring of an unraced half-sister to the brilliant two-mile chaser Master Minded, twice successful in the Champion Chase at Cheltenham.