Getta Good Feeling entered her last race as the odds-on shot for the 2500m VRC Oaks, but this Saturday she relaunches over less than half the distance at Flemington.
The trainer Danny O’Brien taps into the $525,000 Easter Yearling Sale buy’s access to the Inglis Race Series for her opening outing in the $1 million Inglis Sprint over 1200m.
Standout milers Raging Force and Alpha Sophie are among the chief threats to Getta Good Feeling, but O’Brien foresees a competitive fresh run based on her recent third in the 800m Flemington jump-out last Friday.
“There are not many options for her to kick off, but it’s a nice starting point; 1200 metres down the straight at Flemington, it gets a good gallop into her and sets her up for the rest of the campaign,” O’Brien said.
“She’s obviously more effective at 1400 and a mile, but she’s a preparation older now, she’s sharper, her work so far has been very good and her trial Friday was very good.
“She seems to have come back in really good shape.”
She broke her maiden in the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m), was third next out in the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m), took the Group 2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m), but faltered late in the Oaks for sixth behind Strictly Business.
O’Brien therefore avoided nominating Getta Good Feeling to the Group 1 ATC Australian Oaks (2400m) in Sydney, and she’ll sit out the prominent pathfinder, Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m), where she’s the second elect.
Her program revolves around the $1 million Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) on April 25 at Morphettville.
“After Saturday, she’ll then go probably three weeks and run over a mile (at Caulfield) at what was the old Moonee Valley meeting in the three-year-old fillies mile,” O’Brien said, referring to the $200,000 Group 3 Alexandra Stakes (1600m).
“We’ll just space her runs through to the Australasian Oaks.
“There’s an option to go to Brisbane after that. The Oaks in Brisbane is 2200 and we just thought the 2500 in the spring found her out for stamina late.”
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