FABULOUS FEELING CONTINUES WINNING FORM
Gun filly Getta Good Feeling pocketed another stakes victory on Saturday at Caulfield taking out the Group 3 Alexandra Stakes.
The daughter made it two win to start her Autumn campaign which is aikmed at the Group 1 Australasian Oaks in Adelaide in early May.
Danny O'Brien's Racing Manager Jack Howard said the Group 1 feature is firmly on the three-year-old's program.
"The cliche is you don't make plans raceday, but Danny's publicly said the plan is to hopefully get her across to Adelaide for the Oaks," Howard said post race.
"She doesn't have that Group 1 on her page at the moment and that's obviously the aim. She's a multiple Group 2 winner and hopefully we can get that there. We'll take her home, we'll look after her and then we'll plot our path from here to there."
Howard said the most impressive aspect of her win was that she had to make a long sustained run from back in the field.
"The two leaders quickened and she got left a bit with a vulnerable area between the first two and three and four in the run, and the way she just balanced and built through her gears to go past them was really pleasing," Howard said.
"She's just continuing to improve. She's a So You Think filly and we know So You Think fillies continued to improve all the way through to their four-year-old spring and autumn campaigns.
Jockey Billy Egan said his pre-race plans went out the window on the short-priced favourite once the gates opened.
"We drew out and were sort of planning to be in the first couple, but they showed a bit more zest going out of the straight the first time, so I just allowed her to find her feet and she travelled really sweetly for me out the back," Egan said.
"She just gets into a beautiful rhythm and you just let her have her head at the 600 and she just builds it into it all on her own."
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