With Black Caviar’s daughter Oscietra making her highly anticipated race debut at Flemington on Sunday it would be so easy to go for the obvious and make her the ‘Best On Breeding’ however we will be turning our sights further north on Saturday with the running of the $200,000 Group III Lilivale Stud BJ Mclachlan Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm.
If nothing else the McLachlan Stakes demonstrates why Snitzel has become one of the highest sought after stallions in the nation.
Arrowfield Stud’s son of Redoute’s Choice has four leading contenders among the 15 starters.
Peter Fluor and Kane Weiner’s Speedway Stables are a growing influence in America and they look to have a smart one in the Snitzel filly Debonairly (pictured as a yearling) who they purchased through their bloodstock agent Marette Farrell for $320,000 out of the Milburn Creek draft at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling sale.
You’d be hard to please if you weren’t impressed by the debut win of Debonairly at Warwick Farm on December 14.
Like most juveniles coming from Tulloch Lodge, the daughter of Snitzel looked the consummate professional.
The best to begin for Kerrin McEvoy she gave nothing else a chance, staying on strongly at the end of 1100 metres.
Debonairly will be vying to become the second stakes-winner for the imported Singspiel mare Crystal Choir (GB), who made four starts without troubling the scorer.
A 50,000 guineas Tattersalls Yearling, Crystal Choir (GB) looks another inspired choice by bloodstock agent John Foote for Tony Santic.
Foote plucked Crystal Choir (GB) out of the 2004 Tattersalls December mare sale for 34,000 guineas.
In her first season Crystal Choir (GB) was sent to Anabaa (USA) producing the filly Corsaire who would win the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes and Listed Quezette Stakes.
Crystal Choir (GB) is one of four daughters of the Kris mare Crystal Ring to leave a stakes-winner.
While Crystal Choir (GB) failed to win a race her half-sister Catella (Generous) was a champion in Germany numbering a Group I among her eight wins.
She is the dam of Caprice (Monsun) a Group III winner of four races in the US, France and Germany.
While Catella was the star of the team, her half-sister Lizzy Letti (Grand Lodge) was also a
Another half-sister Ring Of Esteem is the dam of the Listed winner Tinshu (Fantastic Light).
Crystal Ring is a half-sister to Paul Mellon’s Glint Of Gold (Mill Reef) a Group 1 winner in Italy, France and Germany and runner-up in the Epsom Derby and St Leger, and his brother Diamond Shoal also a Group I winner in Italy, France and Germany.
A win for the Magic Millions 2yo Classic bound Debonairly would do no harm for her half-brother by Zoustar (pictured below) heading to the 2017 Magic Millions on the Gold Coast among the draft of Milburn Creek.
