Private Eye's little brother King's Secret proves his mettle with a stellar performance at Rosehill Gardens

News.com.au

31-05-2025

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.
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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''
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'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.'