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News.com.au
6 days ago
- Business
- News.com.au
Private Eye's little brother King's Secret proves his mettle with a stellar performance at Rosehill Gardens
King's Secret, the younger half-brother to top galloper Private Eye, has started his career in a similar winning vein to his illustrious sibling. Like Private Eye, King's Secret is trained by Joe Pride and he scored his maiden city win in the Toyota Forklifts 3&4YO Benchmark 72 Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. While King's Secret took five starts to win in the metropolitan arena, Private Eye did it at start four but he too won his first Saturday city race in his fifth trip to the races. • King's Secret, a three-year-old son of Shalaa (IRE), relished a strongly run race with Power Of The Brave highballing out in front before King's Secret got down to business in the straight, skipping across the heavy surface to score in impressive fashion. 'He travelled sweetly a couple of horses back from the lead and he's really starting to get more professional with every run,' winning jockey Andrew Adkins said. 'He switched right on today, showed good speed, travelled the whole way and when I asked for him, there was plenty there. 'He showed a good turn of foot so that's nice to know that he can handle a wet track like that. It's opens more doors going forward.' King's Secret ($8.50) defeated Codetta ($5.50) by three-quarters-of-a-length with the same margin back to Ellipsis ($4.80) in third. Pride said the win has made him 'have a rethink' initially indicating a spell was most likely for King's Secret but the ease of the win combined with the gelding's ability to handle rain affected ground on the eve of winter has the trainer hedging his bets. It's no secret that King's Secret has a bright future! ðŸ'' He wins at Rosehill for @PrideRacing and Andrew Adkins! @aus_turf_club | @ProvenTbreds â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) May 31, 2025 • Zebra Finch eyes JJ Atkins glory after Rosehill triumph 'I think we'll get him home and make that decision after we see how he comes through the run,' Pride said. 'Either way he's a nice horse going forward so we'll what's best by the horse but it's good to know he's effective on wet tracks.' The $3.80 favourite, Don't Forget Jack blew his chances at the start, sitting down in the barriers as the starter let them go, missing the jump before finishing ninth. King's Secret is the third horse out of the mare Confidential Queen that Pride has trained and the three-year-old's younger sister Confidentiality is showing early signs of following in her older siblings footsteps. 'She's been a really good mare (Confidential Queen) to our stable,' Pride said. 'The first one I got was a horse called Royal Witness, he won $400,000, Private Eye speaks for himself and now King's Secret is doing everything right and looks to have a bright future. 'I just sent their sister Confidentiality to the paddock after a couple of trials and I really like her too.'
Sydney Morning Herald
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
Messara and Gavranich have big plans for promising filly Lady Olenna
A promising Scone filly could well be aimed at the home stand-alone carnival in less than a fortnight if she takes the next step up at Monday's Gunnedah meeting. Lady Olenna, an impressive three-year-old daughter of boom sprint sire Shalaa, lines up for only her third start in a Benchmark 58 Handicap over 1000m. Based in the Paul Messara-Leah Gavranich stable, Lady Olenna looks beautifully placed from the draw in a race that could weaken off with two of the early market rivals being preferred at Sunday's Dubbo meeting. A filly which was given plenty of time after first trialling back in July last year, Lady Olenna quickly lived up to her promise for connections. She was run down on debut at Scone by the smart and unbeaten Tamworth three-year-old Nation Changing, but hit straight back in dominant fashion three weeks ago, tracking the speed before careering away late by nearly three lengths as a hot favourite and comfortably breaking 34 seconds for her last 600m in soft ground. It signalled a very progressive sprinter which could tackle a much better class over the two-day Scone carnival on May 16-17. The stable has been very deliberate in bringing her along slowly, and with leading jockey Aaron Bullock again aboard from a handy draw, she looks one of the best bets at the meeting. On a surface likely to improve from soft 5 to good 4, the stable will also be hunting a win in the opening race with debutant filly Stolen Summer. Loading
The Age
04-05-2025
- Sport
- The Age
Messara and Gavranich have big plans for promising filly Lady Olenna
A promising Scone filly could well be aimed at the home stand-alone carnival in less than a fortnight if she takes the next step up at Monday's Gunnedah meeting. Lady Olenna, an impressive three-year-old daughter of boom sprint sire Shalaa, lines up for only her third start in a Benchmark 58 Handicap over 1000m. Based in the Paul Messara-Leah Gavranich stable, Lady Olenna looks beautifully placed from the draw in a race that could weaken off with two of the early market rivals being preferred at Sunday's Dubbo meeting. A filly which was given plenty of time after first trialling back in July last year, Lady Olenna quickly lived up to her promise for connections. She was run down on debut at Scone by the smart and unbeaten Tamworth three-year-old Nation Changing, but hit straight back in dominant fashion three weeks ago, tracking the speed before careering away late by nearly three lengths as a hot favourite and comfortably breaking 34 seconds for her last 600m in soft ground. It signalled a very progressive sprinter which could tackle a much better class over the two-day Scone carnival on May 16-17. The stable has been very deliberate in bringing her along slowly, and with leading jockey Aaron Bullock again aboard from a handy draw, she looks one of the best bets at the meeting. On a surface likely to improve from soft 5 to good 4, the stable will also be hunting a win in the opening race with debutant filly Stolen Summer. Loading
