Jewell L. Ramirez's Dance The Dust Off rallied to win Saturday's 870-yard, $34,595 Lip Chip LLC Wyoming Distance Challenge Stakes at Wyoming Downs.

Prepped by Tori Hadley and sent to post as the 9-10 favorite in the field of seven, Dance The Dust Off defeated 10-1 longshot Katies Boy Joe by 1 1/2 lengths in :45.033. Nakia Teeter rode the 8-year-old son of the Count Corona stallion Coronas Blackdiamond.

Dance The Dust Off posted a 103 speed index while scoring his fifth lifetime stakes win and landing a berth in this year's Grade 1 Distance Challenge Championship at Albuquerque Downs. The gelding was bred in New Mexico by Sarah Donaldson Rioux, and he is out of Magic Yard (TB), a winning Kentucky-bred son of the Polish Navy stallion Ghazi.

Raced in seven states, Dance The Dust Off has won 13 of 31 starts, and the $16,951 winner's share of the Wyoming Distance Challenge purse increased his earnings to $208,554. The gelding's stakes resume includes a victory in the 2022 Cox Ranch Distance Challenge Championship (G1) at Horseshoe Indianapolis.

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