Im All Courage will have to overcome a similarly tough draw for Saturday’s $100,000 Gold Tiara Final (1,730 metres) if she is to give Trevor-Jones another taste of Group 1 glory on his home track.

The Courage Under Fire x Erin Jean filly has drawn barrier 13 after finishing second in her heat last Thursday, flying home after a sluggish start to cross the line 1.9 metres behind winner Joyces Desire.

Had a lengthy protest from Bernie Hewitt in third with Im With Lexy against the winner been upheld, Im All Courage would have been an unlikely $33 winner.

It was easily the best of her three career runs so far, after she broke on debut and finished a long way back before another unsettled run second-up where she finished fifth.

“After her debut, she was out of the draws, so we took her to a trial to get her off that restriction. We might as well not have worried,” Trevor-Jones joked.

“But I guess barrier 13 is better than 14.

“Maybe it can work out for the best. If we drew three or four we would have had to test her and have a crack from the start, and she’s never been the type to race like that.

“She went from 11 in the heats and flew home, so we have to look for those sorts of positives.”

The memories of Beetson’s poor draw were close to the surface when this year’s Tiara draw was conducted – compere Chris Gray recalled that he saw similarly dejected faces on Beetson’s connections in 2010.

Beetson famously claimed the victory as an outsider and has gone on to a strong career at the elite level. Even as an eight-year-old, he is still a regular contender in good company.

Im All Courage will have to defy similar odds, but if there’s one thing she has shown in her life so far, it is that she can live up to her name.

“She is a sister to Beetson and has had some leg problems like he has,” the trainer said.

“When she was five weeks old her mum actually died. She had internal bleeding and had to be put down, which was, naturally, pretty sad for everyone. 

“She was taken to Scone, where they have a lot of surrogate mares. You sometimes have to wait for them to find one that they’re compatible with, but she went to the first one she saw.

“She has been fairly courageous all through her life. We don’t usually name them after Courage Under Fire, we try to take them from the mare’s side when it comes to a name, but we felt it was pretty fitting to have Courage in there.

“Her races have brought it out in her too. She’s had some tough runs that normally would flatten a horse, but she has come home well and improved every time.”

Erin Jean had good pedigree in juvenile racing herself, having won a heat of the 2002 Tiara, before a puncture in the final restricted her to seventh.

She retired at the end of that year with a record of four wins and two minors from nine starts.