Reloaded Leads Another Snitzel Stakes Double

A reinvigorated Reloaded and the ever-classy Exhilarates, both from Snitzel’s 2016 crop, gave the four-time Champion Sire a remarkable twenty-ninth same-day stakes double at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Reloaded backed up from his maiden stakes success a fortnight ago to deliver a strong win in the $150,000 Gr3 BRC Lord Mayor’s Cup (1800m), defeating stablemate So You Win, and giving their owners-in-common Peter Tighe, Francis & Christine Cook and Noel & Maria Greenhalgh a memorable quinella. Trainer Chris Waller has a simple explanation for Reloaded’s burst of stakes- winning form: confidence. “He has always shown he has had ability, he has run in Group 1 races, but confidence is just an amazing thing. “Getting confidence back into horses is often a lot harder than what you think, but now he has found it we will keep pushing on with him and he might get over a bit further too.” A $350,000 Magic Millions buy from Arrowfield for Guy Mulcaster & the Harras Syndicate, Reloaded has now earned $560,000. His likely next start will be in the $1.2 million weight-for-age Gr2 Q22 (P.J. O’Shea Stakes) over 2200 metres on 12 June. His dam, Gr1 VRC Oaks winner Hollow Bullet (by Sunday Silence’s son Tayasu Tsuyoshi) has an unraced 2YO son Silent Bullet (by Maurice) in the Waterhouse & Bott stable, and her yearling filly by Maurice was bought for $200,000 by Ciaron Maher from Kulani Park at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale. The mare’s 2020 foal is a filly by Pariah (Redoute's Choice).