Giga Kick has easy Balnarring hit out ahead of The 2025 Goodwood

Clayton Douglas has confirmed Giga Kick will line up in The Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville next Friday after completing his preparation with a quiet 1000m jump-out at Balnarring.

The 2022 Everest winner is set to carry 54.5kg in the Group 1 feature—well below jockey Mark Zahra’s recent minimums—thanks to the set-weights and penalties structure of the race.

“My jockey will have to watch his weight,” Douglas joked on RSN. “He hasn’t won since he was a three-year-old, so he’s well in at the weights.”

Giga Kick missed most of his four-year-old season with injury but has been building steadily this autumn, with three jump-outs including a win over Austmarr and a gallop at Sandown.

“He had a little bowl around at Balnarring this morning. He wasn’t out to do too much,” Douglas said. “We’ve been able to get some nice work into him at home.”

“He had a good stretch of the legs, and I was really happy with how he came through it. He’s on track for next week.”

Giga Kick hasn’t tasted victory since the Doomben 10,000 last May. He returned last spring but was injured in the McEwen Stakes and later ran second in The Everest during a four-start campaign.

Douglas is confident the five-year-old is right back where he needs to be.

“I think he’s as good as he’s ever been and he’s going to take beating,” he said.