Australian
thoroughbreds starred at Kenilworth in South Africa on Saturday with Street Cry
(IRE) filly Oh Susanna claiming her second Group I win in the Sun Met
Celebrated with GH Mumm, while promising two year-old Traces landed the Listed
Tattersalls Summer Juvenile Stakes for Arrowfield Stud.
Prepared by Justin Snaith, Oh Susanna won the Group I Cartier Paddock Stakes at
her previous outing and was the only three year-old filly in the 18 horse
field.
She powered to the line to win the 2000 metre feature by half a length becoming
the first three year-old filly to win the race since 1905.
Another freakishly good daughter of Darley's much missed Street Cry, who has also
given us Winx and Zenyatta, Oh Susanna has won three of eight starts more than justifying
the big price paid for her dam Sharp Susan (USA) in 2012.
When US Group II winner Sharp Susan was offered at the 2012 Inglis Australian
Broodmare Sale by Tyreel Stud she attracted plenty of global attention with
Badgers Bloodstock securing the prized mare for $1,050,000.
Purchased on behalf of South African based Drakenstein Stud, Sharp Susan was
sent to stud initially in Australia before being sent to the Northern
Hemisphere in 2016.
Foaled and raised at Coolmore before being sent to South Africa as a yearling, Oh
Susanna is the third winner for Sharp Susan, whose first foal Indiano Jones was
Group II placed in the US and whose second, Biblical Susan, is a winner in
South Africa.
The current two year-old from Sharp Susan, a colt by Exceed and Excel, was sold
at Inglis Easter last year for $300,000 to Snowden Racing and was consigned by
Coolmore. He has been named Signore Fox and is trained by Peter and Paul
Snowden for Waratah Thoroughbreds.
Sharp Susan's last Australian bred foal is a yearling filly by Fastnet Rock.
Two year-old Snitzel colt Traces made it a stakes double for the Aussie breds
when he scored a dominant two and a quarter length win in the Listed
Tattersalls Summer Juvenile Stakes over 1000 metres at his second start.
Not offered at auction, Traces runs for his co-breeder Arrowfield Stud in
partnership with Ridgemont Racing and is the first foal of unraced Traceability,
a half-sister to Group I winners Master of Design and Suntagonal.
Arrowfield Stud sold a t here-quarter brother by Redoute's Choices to Traces at
the rcenet Magic Millions Yearling Sale for $750,000 to Hawkes Racing.
Traces is the 77th stakes-winner for champion sire Snitzel.