“It just showed today what a good weight-for-age horse can do against handicappers.”

So said owner Tony Ottobre after Pride Of Jenni raced her rivals into the ground in a trademark Hollindale Stakes victory a fortnight ago.

Notably the front-running eight-year-old started favourite in that race after a surge of support late in the week saw her head the market from Half Yours, Birdman and She’s A Hustler in what was widely seen as a race in four.

And those four did indeed fill the first four placings, though not quite in market order. (Half Yours ran fourth.)

The same quartet top the market for this Saturday’s Group 1 Doomben Cup. But when the field was finalised on Tuesday, Half Yours - presumably one of the “handicappers” to which Ottobre was referring - was a narrow favourite at $3.00 to Pride Of Jenni’s $3.60.

Will the punters again rally to Jenni late in the week? And will it be meaningful if they do?

It’s worth noting that the Hollindale was Pride Of Jenni’s 13th win, but only the fifth time she has started favourite and won.

On the other side of the coin, she’s been a beaten favourite six times and a beaten equal favourite once.

Nothing unusual there. But it’s in Group 1 races where the market (and, let’s face it, the “experts”) have really tended to get Jenni wrong.

She’s won four Group 1s, but never as favourite - starting at $16, $13, $7 and $4.80. That last one was the 2025 Empire Rose, where she started third favourite behind Idle Flyer (last) and Leica Lucy (second).

Conversely, she’s started favourite in four Group 1s for no wins - the 2024 King Charles (second), the 2024 Champions Mile (11th), the 2025 Australian Cup (ninth) and the 2026 All-Star Mile (third).