Cummings seeks sprint redemption
FILLY SET TO STRIKE
REDEMPTION is front of mind again for Godolphin – just days after vanquishing Cox Plate demons – with In Secret primed to turn the tables on Jacquinot in the $3m Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes.
In Secret looked every bit the winner of the Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes (1400m) last start in Sydney until Mick Price and Michael Kent Jrtrained Jacquinot arrived in the nick of time to blouse the filly.
Unlike Jacquinot, who contested The Everest after the Golden Rose, In Secret will tackle Saturday’s 1200m blueribbon Group 1 feature at Flemington with five weeks between races.
Trainer James Cummings has no doubt In Secret is up to the task, denying the colts and geldings in the prized threeyear-old feature.
“She’s going to bring that absolutely top-class Golden Rose form to the race,” Cummings said.
“It has proven to be a really, really reliable form race already.”
In Secret’s stablemate Golden Mile placed fourth in the Golden Rose before coming out to win the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas and then Group 2 Callander-Presnell, formerly Stan Fox Stakes.
She’s Extreme finished sixth behind Jacquinot and subsequently placed in both the Group 1 Flight and Spring Champions stakes.
Sejarden ran seventh in the Golden Rose then sixth in the Group 2 Roman Consul, after blowing the start, before rebounding with a Group 3 Red Anchor Stakes triumph last Saturday at The Valley.
In Secret was held together in an 800m pipe-opener at Flemington last Friday.
Economics, an $8 fourth favourite in TAB’s pre-nominations Coolmore market, won the jumpout from speedy Queen Of The Ball, Cannonball, Lady Laguna and Nettuno.
Fillies boast a 30 per cent Coolmore strike rate the past decade, with September Run (2020), Sunlight (2018) and Nechita (2012) triumphing over the colts and geldings.
“The Coolmore would be a huge achievement for In Secret if she could get up and win her first Group 1 in a race as big as that,” Cummings said.
“I think she’s got what it takes, but it’s a very good race, in my eyes it’s the Golden Slipper in the carnival for three-year-olds and we’ll be pretty pumped up about saddling her up in the race.”
James McDonald, committed to riding In Secret, won the Coolmore last year aboard Home Affairs.