The Ladies Syndicate that races Our Naughty Secret will go into the RL Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) next month confident she will run the distance right out after a very promising victory over that trip at Ascot on Saturday.
Our Naughty Secret had been doing her best work late over 1000m and 1100m in her first two appearances and the step up to 1200m saw her finish like a classic filly of the future in the $80,000 Magic Millions Plate.
The Steve Wolfe-trained youngster made ground from the back of the field for Jade McNaught and got on the back of Mardusa (Maurice) on the corner. It was shaping nicely for the Ladies Syndicate led by Steve’s wife Maureen until Mardusa skipped four lengths clear of their filly for the run home.
Our Naughty Secret needed every inch of the straight and the way she let down and reeled them in was equally impressive. “I was confident she would go close today,” Wolfe said. “She’s exciting and you never get sick of winning with a filly like this one.”
McNaught already considers her a likely type for a race like the G3 WA Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) worth $200,000 on May 3. “She was green first-up and had no luck last time. We thought she was over the odds today and she lived up to what we knew she could do.
“I didn’t want to do too much too early today. We got a trail into the race and she has a good turn of foot.”
Our Naughty Secret was bred and sold by Chris & Andrea Gales (Gervase Park) for $60,000 at last year’s Perth Magic Millions. She’s the first foal from Ascot 2yo winner Time And Truth who was trained by Paul Jordan for Harvey Crossman’s Lima Syndicate.
Time and Truth (Oratorio) changed hands and stables several times during an extended career that finished with Pilbara and Pearl Coast campaigns as a 7yo in August 2021. Later that month she was purchased by Gervase Park for $3,000 at an Inglis Digital Sale and returned a PPT after an initial cover by I’m All The Talk.
Time and Truth has a filly foal by A Lot (USA) and was bred back to the Westbury Park resident in September.
The I’m All The Talk – Oratorio cross has an astonishing 94% strike-rate with the best of them Watch Me Dance who won to Group 2 level in the 2020 WA Guineas (1600m). She was also raced by a Wolfe-managed Ladies Syndicate and later transferred to New Zealand after topping the 2022 Magic Millions Perth Winter Sale for a record-breaking $600,000.
I’m All The Talk’s death in January 2022 after just six books at Mungrup Stud and Darling View Thoroughbreds was a huge loss for the local industry and principally the legion of breeders with mares by Oratorio.
Gervase Park (as agent) has given Darling View newcomer Splintex maximum support with five first-crop fillies and colts among its draft of 9 yearling to the Perth Magic Millions Sale on February 20 and 21.
Splintex is a son of Australian Champion Snitzel with a short-course record underlined by Group 2 victories down the Flemington straight-six and at Randwick on Easter Saturday 2020.
There’s a Splintex for everyone with 36 catalogued at the Swan Valley Sale. His first filly to parade is the August-foaled chestnut out of Consortium (Written Tycoon) from Gervase Park. Catalogued as Lot 17, she counts as a close relation G1 Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) winner Precious Gem (Econsul).