Mirage Dancer is the 11th Gr1 winner for Frankel winning The Metropolitan (2400m) at Randwick.
Covered up along the inside to the home straight, Mirage Dancer was able to accelerate through between horses and finished too well for the favourite Mugatoo (Henrythenavigator).
Previously the winner of the Gr.3 Glorious Stakes at Goodwood, the seven-year-old is now aiming to become the third this century to complete The Metropolitan-Caulfield Cup double after Tawqeet (2006) and Railings (2005).
Inbred 4×3 to Danzig, he is the 11th Gr.1 winner for Frankel (Galileo) and a three-quarter brother to Gr.2 Prix Sandringham winner Obligate (Frankel).
Mirage Dancer is a half-brother to Gr.2-placed Forge (Dubawi) and L.R. placed Radiator (Dubawi), their dam Heat Haze (Green Desert) winner of the Gr.1 Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park and Gr.1 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington Park.
Heat Haze is one of five Gr.1 winners out of the French Listed winner Hasili (Kahyasi) following Champion Banks Hill (Danehill), the dam of Gr1 Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville winner Romantica (Galileo), Intercontinental (Danehill), Cacique (Danehill) and Champs Elysees (Danehill) as well Gr.2 winner and leading sire Dansili (Danehill) and Responsible (Oasis Dream), the dam of Obligate.