Secret Eagle (GB)

The promising three-year-old novice winner Secret Eagle is offered for sale. He has thrived for a winter break and is due to come back into work any time now.

Trained by Michael Dods, Secret Eagle is a son of Pearl Secret who improved on his debut effort to make virtually all in a soft ground five-furlong Catterick novice towards the end of October, defying odds of 50/1 in the process.

There was no fluke about the result, however, and the form has a strong look to it. The now 79-rated runner-up Miss Nay Never went on to win a Wolverhampton handicap in December, whilst the sixth home Glinbury was a nose second in a Doncaster nursery on his next start.

Such details bode extremely well for Secret Eagle's prospects as a three-year-old, and a glance at his appealing pedigree only adds to the anticipation.

He is out of the Falbrav mare Piste, who won twice over five-furlongs, and is in turn a sibling of the Grp-3 placed Black Cherry (subsequently dam of the Stakes-placed Little Rollright).

Their dam Arctic Char was a Listed-winner who gained multiple other black-type honours, whilst the family extends back within three generations to over a dozen more black-type performers, including the Grp-2 winners Last Resort, Rebellion and Trans Island.

The covering sire Pearl Secret provided numerous individual winners from his first crop runners in 2020, whilst Falbrav is a noted broodmare sire source in Japan.

Secret Eagle has already run to a good level and after just two starts he possesses a profile which hints at plenty more to come as a three-year-old. He is a horse of enormous potential; please get in touch for more details.