Getta Good to go for sprint return | Just horse racing

The last time Getta Good Feeling was at the races she started odds-on favorite in the 2500m VRC Oaks, but she will resume this Saturday at Flemington in a race that is not even half that distance.

Trainer Danny O’Brien is taking advantage of the $525,000 Easter Yearling Sale purchase available for the Inglis Race Series to launch her campaign in the $1 million Inglis Sprint over 1200 meters.

Quality sprinters Raging Force and Alpha Sophie top the list of potential rivals to Getta Good Feeling, but O’Brien wouldn’t be shocked to see her in another big race after a close-up third in an 800m Flemington jumpout last Friday.

“There aren’t many options for her to kick off, but it’s a nice starting point; 1200 meters down the straight at Flemington he gallops into her well and she’s ready for the rest of the campaign,” said O’Brien.

“She is clearly more effective at 1400 and a mile, but she is an older prep now, she is sharper, her work so far has been very good and her test on Friday was very good.

“It looks like she’s come back in really good shape.”

After taking her maiden win in the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m), Getta Good Feeling ran third in the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) and won the Group 2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m) before failing to complete the Oaks distance, as she finished sixth behind Strictly Business.

For that reason, O’Brien did not even nominate Getta Good Feeling for the Group 1 ATC Australian Oaks (2400m) in Sydney and she will not compete in the main build-up to that race, the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m), for which she is second favourite.

The $1 million Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on April 25 is the focus of her campaign.

“After Saturday she will then probably go 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 (1600 metres).

“We’ll make sure she can run through to the Australasian Oaks.

“There is an option to go to Brisbane afterwards. The Oaks in Brisbane are 2200 and we thought the 2500 in the spring discovered her late because of her endurance.”

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