Danny O’Brien is fast becoming head of the So You Think fan club given he trains not one but two outstanding three year-old fillies by the much missed Coolmore stalwart sire in Sass Appeal and Getta Good Feeling, who won the Group III MRC Alexandra Stakes (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
Getta Good Feeling showed some brilliance when returning to win the $1million Inglis Sprint over 1200m last month and was back in her comfort zone for this assignment when stepped up to a mile with Billy Egan to ride.
She surged to the lead with 100m to run and was eased late to score a soft three-quarter length win.
“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,” said stable representative Jack Howard.
"She's just continuing to improve. She's a So You Think filly and we know these fillies continue to improve all the way through to their four-year-old spring and autumn campaigns.
"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 (G1 2000m).
"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."
Getta Good Feeling was a $525,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Milburn Creek draft for Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock and runs for Jonathan Munz’s Pinecliff Racing.
She was a successful pinhook having been bought for $400,000 at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale from the Phoenix Broodmare Farm by Suman Hedge Bloodstock.
Getta Good Feeling has the overall record of four wins and four placings from nine starts with over $1.2million in the bank.
Getta Good Feeling is a three-quarter sister to Group III winner Elliptical and is the best of four winners from four foals to race from Marquise da Rossa, a winning Testa Rossa mare from the family of Golden Slipper winner Marauding.
Marquise da Rossa was bought by Yulong for $675,000 at the 2023 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and has a yearling filly by Alabama Express that sold at Magic Millions for $360,000 to Scott Waters/Jay McPhee/Clarke Bloodstock Pty Ltd.
She was covered last spring by Dundeel, a champion son of High Chaparral like So You Think with the resulting offspring to be a three-quarter sibling to Getta Good Feeling.
