Snitzel Adds to Lead after Group Double

Multiple Australian Champion Sire Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice-Snippet’s Lass, by Snippets) may have finished off his past few racing seasons with a late rush, however the Arrowfield Stud-based stallion has made an unequivocal statement from the get-go of 2021-22. Having already put himself in the box seat at the Top of the new season Black Type Stallion Premiership, Snitzel made sure his early lead was secure courtesy of an exceptional double by two exciting 3YOs. First it was the turn of 2020’s highest-priced Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale Blue Gum Farm graduate Bruckner ($725,000) who held off fast-finishing 2021 Gr1 Blue Diamond winner Artorius (Flying Artie) in the Gr3 McNeil Stakes at Caulfield after hitting the front early in the straight. That was followed shortly thereafter by a strong front-running victory from well-bred colt In The Congo (Snitzel-Via Africa, by Far) in the Gr3 San Domenico Stakes at Kembla Grange. Out of Champion South African sprinting mare Via Africa, the $350,000 Inglis Easter graduate consigned by Newhaven Park adds yet another stallion prospect for Newgate Farm whose buying group is proving prolific at picking out future sire prospects through the sales ring. In The Congo’s primary spring mission is the Gr1 Coolmore Stud Stakes, widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s premium stallion-making races.

In The Congo (fence) denies Paulele in the San Domenico (pic: Steve Hart)