Class told in Tuesday's $150,000 Listed Gosford Guineas when the All Too Hard filly Forbidden Love emerged from an eight-week hiatus to claim a second stakes success and earn a trip to the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions 3yo Guineas.
The fourth winner on the day for James McDonald, Forbidden Love tracked three-wide from midfield to defeat the Rubick gelding The Face by a length with the same distance back to the Snitzel colt Marsannay in third.
Trained by Richard and Michael Freedman, Forbidden Love won the Listed Reginald Allen Quality at Randwick on October 17. That earned her a trip south two weeks later where she finished third behind Shout The Bar and Odeum in the Group 1 Empire Stakes at Flemington.
Placed in the Group II Darley Furious Stakes and Listed Heritage Stakes, Forbidden Love advances her record to four wins and four thirds from nine starts with earnings of $388,750.
"She's a beauty, isn't she? She does everything you ask her to do, one of those fillies from the very start that wants to be a racehorse," Richard Freedman said.
"I am not sure she was totally comfortable in the wet ground. She seemed to hit a couple of flat spots, but James did a great job from where he was. He was three deep, but he was only travelling straight and he had some cover. So, it may not have been such a disadvantage as it appears.
"There is definite improvement in her, but there will need to be to win the (Magic Millions) Guineas. I'm just delighted to see her get the job done today for some really nice people.
"I bought her at the Magic Millions. She was my top pick from the ones I could afford. I did not want to spend any more than $200,000 and she made $150,000 and she has just been a gem."
Bred by Kerry O'Brien Thoroughbreds, the daughter of All Too Hard was purchased out of the Bhima Stud draft at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
A half-sister to the Melbourne winner Kuramae (Foxwedge), Forbidden Love is the second foal of the class More Than Ready (USA) mare Juliet's Princess (USA).
A 5-time winner and stakes-placed in the Listed SAJC Laelia Stakes, Juliet's Princess is out of the unraced Thunder Gulch (USA) mare Malayan Princess.
Juliet's Princess (USA) has a two-year-old Foxwedge colt named Royal Fox that was purchased out of the Bhima draft by Matthew Williams Racing for $40,000 at this year's Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
After missing in 2018, Juliet's Princess (USA) was covered by Epaulette last spring.
