Group One Goal for Snitzel Filly

Media Release - Wednesday December 28
Success for Royal Fashion at Ellerslie on Thursday could see her mixing it at the highest level with the older horses.

The lightly-tried three-year-old will resume in the Weekend Herald 1200 and a satisfactory showing will have trainer Mark Forbes and Hong Kong-based owner Dr Gene Tsoi mulling over another Group One start for the filly.

Royal Fashion - Trish Dunnell"She'll kick off again in the Rating 65 race over 1200 metres and if she goes really well then we might just throw in a late nomination for the Telegraph," Forbes said.

The daughter of Snitzel is no stranger to Trentham having finished runner-up there last season behind the Gr.1 Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes winner Luna Rossa.

Following a spell, Royal Fashion was a first-up winner this term at Ruakaka before she ran fourth in the Gr.2 James & Annie Sarten Memorial to earn a trip to Riccarton for the Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas .

"She was pretty unlucky down there, when the rain came it was all over and right from the jump she didn't cop the track at all," Forbes said.

A trip to Sydney for the half-sister to the Gr.2 Autumn Classic winner and Gr.1 Australian Guineas runner-up Alpine Eagle is also a future possibility.

"We're going to be keeping her to sprinting and there's a couple of fillies' races over there at the shorter distances later on that might suit her," Forbes said. – NZ Racing Desk.

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