Breeder-owner Jonathan Munz has been around racing for too long to expect success on the final two days of the Flemington carnival, but he knows there is a chance he might walk away with two prized Group 1 victories.
The red and white stripes of Munz have been gracing the winner’s circle across the spring. Giga Kick at Caulfield, Napoleonic at Moonee Valley and Getta Good Feeling at Flemington.
“It never happens like you want it to happen,” Munz cautioned, as his star filly Getta Good Feeling in the VRC Oaks and favourite horse Giga Kick in the Champions Sprint look leading hopes.
Getta Good Feeling, which is named after the Flo Rida song, is a $1.80 favourite for the Oaks after making a one-act affair of the Wakeful Stakes to follow her Thousand Guineas placing and Edward Manifold Stakes victory this spring.
She is a daughter of So You Think and appears to be made for the extended trip of 2500m on Thursday.
“She’s odds-on for a reason and I just hope she can win like an odds-on chance should,” Munz said.
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Getta Good Feeling is the lead in a two-horse Munz attack on the Oaks with Voting Rights, third in the Wakeful, also lining up.
“She has done a good job to get a stakes placing, which helps because I have a few more fillies in that family,” Munz said. “She is different to Getta Good Feeling, but will run a good race.”
Munz has a big breeding operation but could not turn down the opportunity to add to the team when Getta Good Feeling walked into the Inglis Easter Sales ring. He was happy to secure her for $550,000.
“She was clearly the best filly at the sale, and she got right up to the ceiling of what you would pay for a So You Think,” Munz said.
“She was always going to be at her best as she stepped in distance.”
Munz is a shrewd investor in bloodstock, but he admits to a real bond with Giga Kick, a product of a stallion Munz bred, Scissor Kick, and one of his oldest and most successful families.
“He is my favourite because he is the best horse I have had,” Munz said. “He nearly died as a young horse and has still come out and won an Everest and should have won another one by now.”
The plan for the spring reaches its target in Saturday’s Champions Sprint and Clayton Douglas has Giga Kick, which seems over the odds at $5, peaking.
“He worked well this morning,” Munz said on Wednesday.
“He started the spring a couple of weeks later just to make sure he was right, and that meant we had to miss the Everest.”
“He had only had the one trial into the Schillaci [Stakes], so he was little underdone but still won.”
“He was always going to improve and this was the race we had to target and he gets there in great shape.”
