The daughter of Shamus Award remains in work at the trainer’s Hawkesbury base.
Last Saturday Duais further enhanced her growing reputation when a hard finishing second to Hungry Heart in the 2400m Group 1 contest for three-year-old fillies.
Cummings said he has ruled out a trip to Adelaide for the Group 1 Australasian Oaks, a race last year’s Australian Oaks runner-up Toffee Tongue went on to claim.
Duais (orange cap) chases home Hungry Heart in the Australian Oaks at Randwick last Saturday. Photo: Mark Evans/Getty Images.
“To go to Adelaide there’d be too much to do in too little time,” Cummings said. “With the carnival back a week this year it just makes it that much harder,” Cummings said.