Emerging filly Titanium Miss to give 2024 Spring Stakes rivals something to catch at Newcastle

Trainer Tracey Bartley believes he’s got Titanium Miss going as well as ever heading into this Saturday’s Group 3 Spring Stakes at Newcastle.

Trainer Tracey Bartley reckons he couldn’t have Titanium Miss going any better heading into Saturdays Group 3 $250,000 Spring Stakes (1600m) at Newcastle.

The daughter of All Too Hard will attempt to hit a new career peak in the three-year-old feature where she is a $13 contender with the bookies.

Titanium Miss has already won two of her seven starts to date with Bartley confident she can go to a new level in the Spring Stakes.

“I think she is going terrific,” he said.

“I couldn’t have her going better.

“The speed in the race looks like us and I am not sure if Gai’s will go forward but we will just let it unfold when the jump.

“She is a filly right at the top of her game and I was going through the last six years and two winners have come out of barrier 11 so it might be the barrier to be in.”

Genzano won last year’s Spring Stakes from barrier 11 while Aramayo won from the same wide alley in 2018.

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Titanium Miss has form around current Thousand Guineas favourite Aeliana after finishing 1-1/2 lengths off Chris Waller’s filly when she won the Group 3 Reginald Allen Quality two starts ago.

Bartley’s filly followed up the stakes run with a second behind Blazing Harry in a 1300m event on Big Dance day at Royal Randwick.

“We have wanted to stretch her out to the mile,” Bartley said.

“I thinks she is a really good filly.

“She had a tough run the other day at Randwick and was only beaten a length and a half and I thought she was good the other day.”

Ashley Morgan has been tasked with riding Titanium Miss in an even field of three-year-olds that includes Alabama State ($3.90 favourite), Althoff ($4) and The Three Hundred ($6).

Meanwhile, Bartley is expecting stablemate Magicon ($10) to run a big race in the Bella Group Midway Benchmark 72 Handicap (1600m).

Originally published as Emerging filly Titanium Miss to give 2024 Spring Stakes rivals something to catch at Newcastle