In her most recent start, Getta Good Feeling jumped as the odds-on elect in the 2500-metre VRC Oaks, however, she makes her seasonal reappearance over a much shorter trip this Saturday at Flemington.
Trainer Danny O’Brien plans to leverage the $525,000 purchase from the Easter Yearling Sale’s qualification for the Inglis Race Series, kicking off in the $1 million Inglis Sprint at 1200m.
Classy frontrunners Raging Force and Alpha Sophie lead the potential opposition for Getta Good Feeling, yet O’Brien expects a sharp performance on debut after placing third narrowly in an 800m gallop at Flemington 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.”
Her first triumph came in the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m), then third in Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m), victory in Group 2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m), and ultimately sixth in the Oaks to Strictly Business when the trip stretched her.
As such, O’Brien passed on entering her for the Group 1 ATC Australian Oaks (2400m) up north, and she bypasses the vital warmup, Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m), even as the second favourite.
Everything points to the $1 million Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on April 25 as the key objective.
“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.”
Fans can find competitive betting sites offering value on the Inglis Sprint with Getta Good Feeling back in action.
