“He’s not just restricted to wet tracks,” she said.
“It’s more that he can handle the wet while others don’t seem to handle it as good as him.
“He’s just as good on top of the ground as he is on wet tracks.”
Since his last metropolitan triumph in July, Super Duck was placed at Eagle Farm and finished second in the Murwillumbah Cup before a last start fourth in a 1615-metre Benchmark race at Doomben on September 6.
The Murwillumbah Cup performance qualified Super Duck for the $3 million The Big Dance over 1600 metres at Randwick on Melbourne Cup Day in November.
“He’s super fit and we’ve never had him as fit as we have him now,” Hemmings said.
“He should be hard to beat again and if he runs well, he’ll go down for The Big Dance.
“If he misses the race for some reason then he can still run in The Little Dance.”
The Little Dance will be run over the same trip and on the same day as The Big Dance but with a $500,000 prize pool.