Surging Snitzel Sits Top on Both Tables

Sometimes, the prizemoney-based Australian General Sires table and the points-based Black Type Stallion Premiership tables mirror each other, and sometimes they don't. Right now, the early season dominance by Arrowfield Stud's Snitzel (Redoute's Choice) is unequivocal. He is $350,000 clear of Vinery Stud's All Too Hard (Casino Prince) on the former table, and has rocketed to 73 points on the latter table, 27 points ahead of Newgate Farm's Deep Field (Northern Meteor) whose progeny have also started the season well. Already holding a lead on the BTP ahead of the weekend, Snitzel – who stands the 2021 season for $165,000 – surged further ahead on Saturday, courtesy of six individuals that either won or placed in stakes company, and he now boasts ten individual black type performers for 2021-22. Saturday's half dozen black-type cohort comprised:

• Splintex (Gr2 Bobbie Lewis winner)
• Away Game (Gr2 Bobbie Lewis runner-up)
• In The Congo (Gr2 Run To The Rose runner-up)
• Remarque (Gr2 Run To The Rose third)
• Mr Mozart (Listed Exford Stakes winner)
• Royalzel (Dulcify Stakes third)