King’s Best’s five-year-old son Secrecy notched his first Stakes victory on Saturday October 29, when easily landing the Listed Ben Marshall Stakes by four-and-a-half lengths at Newmarket. A consistent gelding, he has only ever failed to win money once in his seventeen-race career, scoring six times in the process.
Bred by Whatton Manor Stud and sold as a yearling for 80,000Gns, he is out of the winning juvenile Wink (Salse), who was also stakes-placed in France. Wink, who comes from the family of Emperor Jones and Bakharoff, also has a filly foal by Cape Cross and has been tested in foal to Iffraaj this season.
Secrecy becomes King’s Best’s 42nd Stakes winner overall and ninth this season. Of those nine, five have won at Group level including Modun, victorious in the G3 September Stakes on his first try at Stakes level and now a leading candidate for the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday.
