The final component needed has been secured by Getta Good Feeling on her quest for an inaugural Group 1 triumph.
Barrier five is the draw for the Danny O’Brien-trained filly in Saturday’s Australasian Oaks (2000m) conducted at Morphettville.
The card features a maximum of 16 acceptors and four emergencies for this key Group 1 race among Adelaide’s Saturday features.
In the event emergencies don’t start, Getta Good Feeling takes barrier three with Billy Egan aboard again, the rider who guided her to wins at Flemington and Caulfield this time in.
O’Brien passed on the Anniversary Vase (1600m) at Caulfield April 11, going with a Geelong jump-out last week.
“She trialled really well,” O’Brien said.
“She has come back very well this prep. Both starts she has won, and this was always her target for the autumn.
“We specifically didn’t get ready for Sydney because we wanted to have a crack at this, at 2000 metres, and everything’s gone to plan.”
While O’Brien contemplated the Caulfield race for Getta Good Feeling, he decided against it to possibly fit in another outing toward the end of the campaign.
The Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm on June 6 in Brisbane could follow.
“She’s fit and well, and I’m sort of half minded that if she won the Oaks, in Adelaide, that we’d take her up to Brisbane, for the Oaks up there,” O’Brien said.
“I thought I’d rather have another run up my sleeve for later, rather than get another one into her now.
“She won the Wakeful (Stakes 2000m) and run third in the 1000 Guineas (in the spring), so four of our last five have been very, very good runs, and she’s a very classy filly.
“She got 2200 (metres) in the VRC Oaks (over 2500m) and the Queensland Oaks is 2200 and that is why we thought this as well.
“Plus, it gave us a bit more time to give her a proper break after the spring when we decided that we wouldn’t try and get to Sydney.”
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