Gotta Kiss Nearing A Return To Racing

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Classy filly Gotta Kiss has sailed through her first important trackwork test as she nears a comeback to racing.

Gotta Kiss pleased co-trainer Matt Hoysted with the way she finished off an 800 metre jump out at Eagle Farm last .

“It was a hot heat with Isotope and in it and I thought she went sensational,” Hoysted said.

“She settled last in the field of four and I loved the way she just cruised to the line under her own steam. She's come back in super order.”

Hoysted said Gotta Kiss will have another jump out in three weeks before she resumes in the Swiss Ace Plate (1000m) at the Sunshine Coast on November 21.

The filly is being aimed at the (1400m) at the Gold Coast in January.

“She'll have the traditional lead up running first up at the Sunshine Coast before the Mode Plate, then it's either the Plate or Vo Rogue Plate into the Magic Millions Guineas fourth up,” Hoysted said.

The O'Dea-Hoysted stable elected not to pursue a campaign with Gotta Kiss, preferring to keep the filly in Queensland for the summer .

“She had a good break after a busy two-year-old season and she's furnished into a lovely filly now, so very exciting times ahead with her,” Hoysted said.

Gotta Kiss won three of her eight starts as a juvenile, culminating in a fast-finishing second to in the Group One J J Atkins (1400m) at Eagle Farm in June before a spell.

Growing up in Wangaratta in Victoria as a member of one of Australian racing's most famous clans, Hoysted began his career with his uncle, Robert Hickmott, who at the time was the private trainer for owner Lloyd Williams.

Hoysted then spent five years with at Flemington before moving to Queensland.

He landed a job with at Eagle Farm prior to accepting a job as assistant trainer to Steve O'Dea four years ago and they entered into a training partnership early this month.

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