Lone Snitzel a Collingrove Adelaide MM Highlight

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Thursday March 9

Fresh from success at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale where they sold a cracking Toronado (IRE) colt for $400,000, Daniel Brash and his team from Collingrove Stud are now back ready for action with another strong draft to be offered at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale in Adelaide.

The draft features a lovely selection of yearlings being offered on behalf of Arrowfeld Stud with a Snitzel colt from Japanese import Almandine (Jpn) an obvious highlight of the entire sale.

Lot 431

Lot 431 is is the only yearling to be offered in Adelaide this year by champion sire Snitzel and is the third foal of Almandine, whose first two foals are racing in Japan with one a winner and the other placed. Almandine is a sibling to Group I winners Chrysoberyl, the 2019 Champion Dirt Horse of Japan, and Marialite, 2016 Champion Older Mare in Japan.

Snitzel has produced six stakes-winners from mares carrying Sunday Silence blood headed by Group II VRC Wakeful Stakes winner Zenzella.

 

Click here to see the full draft of 23 with highlights below:

Lot 195 Colt The Autumn Sun x Magistra (Jpn), by Deep Impact

Lot 195

From the second crop of Champion 3YO The Autumn Sun and is a half-brother to two winners from a placed half-sister by legendary sire Deep Impact to Group I winner The Deputy and Champion Japanese 3YO Colt King Kamehameha.

 

Lot 324 Colt Dundeel x Sharnee Rose, by Nadeem

Lor 324

From multiple Group winning and Group I placed Sharnee Rose, who has already left two winners at stud and comes from the Asawir branch of the Easy Date family that has produced Group I winners Rewaaya and Sense of Occasion.

 

Lot 334 Filly Castelvecchio x Smart Manoeuvre, by Smart Missile

Lot 334

From the first crop of Dundeel’s dual G1 winning son Castelvecchio and is the third foal of Group III placed Smart Manouevre, a grand-daughter of Group II winner Umaline from the family of Group I ATC Epsom Handicap winner Captain Sonador.

 

Lot 435 Colt Showtime x American Beauty, by Gio Ponti (USA)

Lot 435

From the second cop of promising young sire Showtime, whose talented son Tacito won the $200,000 Magic Millions Adelaide 2YO Classic. Third foal of a placed half-sister to triple Group I winner and $2.1million earner Mentality.

 

Lot 449 Filly Written Tycoon x Banksia, by Redoute’s Choice

Lot 449

One of only three fillies by champion sire Written Tycoon and is a half-sister to quality 3YO colt Bank Maur (Maurice(Jpn), who was second to Jacquinot in the Group III MRC Manfred Stakes and a last start close fourth in Group I VRC Australian Guineas. Third foal of a winning three-quarter sister to Group I winner and sire Foxwedge and stakes-winner She’s a Fox.

 

 

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