Certainly Quiet gets black type
11 May 2026
The Group 3 SA Fillies Classic produced a new black type performing graduate for Willow Park on Saturday, when the well-bred filly Certainly Quiet was narrowly beaten for second place.
Having her seventh start for Mornington-based Jerome Hunter, Certainly Quiet got the perfect rails run under Luke Cartwright, taking the lead 150m from home before being pipped in the shadows of the post by the promising filly Fringes [NZ] (Niagara).
Holding on for second by a close 0.18L, Certainly Quiet continues to build on a promising record, placing at her most recent three starts before gaining black type. Saturday’s race was her first attempt over a longer distance of 2500m, which she relished!
Certainly Quiet becomes the latest stakes performer from a family that has been long-established at Willow Park, descending from the great mare What Can I Say [NZ] (Khozaam).
A Group 2 winner in Australia among her six stakes wins, What Can I Say produced two stakes winners in her stud career and of her five daughters, three have produced stakes winners in their own right.
These include the unraced You Can’t Say That [NZ] (Fusaichi Pegasus), dam of two Group 3 winners among her six winners.
A long-time resident mare at Willow Park, You Can’t Say That left seven-time stakes winner Babylon Berlin (All Too Hard) as her final foal, while her penultimate foal was the regally-bred Shush (Redoute’s Choice), who was also foaled and raised at WP and retained to race by her breeders Alan Galbraith and Doug Alderslade.
A winner at Geelong for Price Kent Racing, Shush’s first foal was the $325,000 Magic Millions graduate Kirk (Blue Point), a winner of two races to date.
Certainly Quiet (Dundeel [NZ]) is the second foal from Shush and was sold at Inglis Easter in 2024 for a bargain $100,000 to Graeme Gathercole’s Rich River Meat Exports Pty Ltd.
A trip to New Zealand while empty yeilded a Proisir filly that sold at Karaka earlier this year for $340,000 and Shush foaled down a Proisir colt in 2025 at Willow Park, before visiting St Mark’s Basilica [FR].