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Daughter of Shooting To Win out to add valuable black-type to record in Listed contest

The Grant Allard-trained Majestic Shot (Shooting To Win) will be out to breakthrough for her first victory at stakes level when she lines up in the Denise's Joy Stakes (Listed, 1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday. 

Having taken out the first start of her preparation with an impressive win at Goulburn on March 11, the filly followed up that victory with an equally dominant win at Gosford on April 1. 

However Majestic Shot's winning sequence came to an end when she finished fourth over 1100 metres at Hawkesbury on April 14 and Allard is confident the daughter of Shooting To Win (Northern Meteor) can bounce back this weekend. 

"I think she lost a bit of confidence, she had a massive weight, things just didn't pan out and everything went wrong," he said.

"But I think on the line she was hitting the line as good as anything at the finish.

"It certainly didn't go to plan and it was a combination of things, we can't blame anything in particular and hopefully we can bounce back from that."

Majestic Shot is coming off a four-week break since her last run, a recipe that has been used to good effect throughout her career.

Allard says this race has been his target, and the break between runs will bring out the best in the three-year-old.

"This has always been the race on the radar. Her other wins have been pretty well spaced last preparation and I think she's best fresh," he said.

"She's always shown ability, with horses like her, we more or less found a target and say 'this is where we'll work towards and we'll fill in the gaps and if we get there, we get there'.

"Four weeks between runs, I don't think it'll hurt her.

"She had her last gallop on Monday and she'll just poke away for the rest of the week, keep her happy and with a spring in her step until the weekend."