Tenth SW This Season for Snitzel as Broodmare Sire

Tara Madgwick - Sunday December 1

Champion sire Snitzel has been enjoying a hot run over spring producing the quinella in the Group II MRC Sandown Guineas on Saturday thanks to Snitzanova and Bittercreek and he has also been making his mark as a broodmare sire delivering his tenth stakes-winner this season in that department from an unlikely source.

Floating wins the Listed ATC Cup - image Steve Hart

Trained by Matthew Smith and ridden by Molly Bourke, six year-old Puissance de Lune (IRE) gelding Floating got his first taste of Black Type when scoring a dominant three length win in the $200,000 Listed ATC Cup (2000m) at Rosehill beating dual Group I winner Converge.

It was the first stakes win for apprentice jockey Molly Bourke.

 

Retained to race by his breeders, Floating has been a work in progress improving with every preparation to date as he has matured and found his niche in the 1600 to 2000m distance range and has won seven races and placed eight times from 30 starts banking over $650,000.

 

 

He is the best of three winners from unraced Snitzel mare Goujon, who has not had a foal since 2020 and comes from the family of Australian Horse of the Year and Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate winner Saintly as well as Caulfield Guineas winner God’s Own.

Floating is the fifth stakes-winner for Swettenham Stud’s Puissance de Lune (IRE) and is the 37th stakes-winner and tenth this season for Snitzel as a broodmare sire with his daughters producing Group I winners Private Life, Pinstriped, Captured by Love and top class colt Growing Empire.

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Race Result - ATC Cup LR 2000m

Rosehill Track: Soft(7) Time: 2:05.81
1
Floating
- 6g Puissance De Lune (IRE) x Goujon (AUS) (Snitzel (AUS))
Tnr: Matthew Smith Rdr: Molly Bourke 53
2
3.2
Converge
- 6g Frankel (GB) x Conversely (IRE) (Shamardal (USA))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: Tim Clark 57
3
4.9
Townsend
- 4g Dundeel (NZ) x Secret Admirer (AUS) (Dubawi (IRE))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: Tommy Berry 54
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4
5.3
Sky Lab
- 7g Real Impact (JPN) x Gold Mission (AUS) (Flying Spur (AUS))
Tnr: P M Perry Rdr: A Hyeronimus 58.5
5
6.4
State Of America
- 5g American Pharoah (USA) x State The Obvious (AUS) (Magic Albert (AUS))
Tnr: David Payne Rdr: Zac Lloyd 53
6
6.4
Hezashocka
- 7g Shocking (AUS) x Shezakiwi (NZ) (Brilliance (USA))
Tnr: M Price & M Kent Jnr Rdr: C Schofield 58.5
7
7
Goldman
- 6g Verdi (NZ) x Goldsmith (NZ) (Montjeu (IRE))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: Regan Bayliss 57
8
7.1
Stockman
- 8g Tavistock (NZ) x Crimson (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ))
Tnr: Joseph Pride Rdr: Reece Jones 55
9
8
King Frankel
- 7g Frankel (GB) x You'll Be Mine (USA) (Kingmambo (USA))
Tnr: Mitchell Beer Rdr: Ms W Costin 55
10
8
Hopeful
- 8g Motivator (GB) x Monst (IRE) (Monsun (GER))
Tnr: Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Rdr: H Van Der Hoven 54.5
11
8.4
Spirit Ridge
- 10g Nathaniel (IRE) x Tates Creek (USA) (Rahy (USA))
Tnr: Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Rdr: J Ford 60
12
9.4
Jimi Hendrix
- 6g New Bay (GB) x Planchart (USA) (Gio Ponti (USA))
Tnr: Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Rdr: Tom Sherry 55.5
13
17.7
Dionysus
- 7g Ocean Park (NZ) x La Quinta (NZ) (Tavistock (NZ))
Tnr: R James & R Wellwood Rdr: N Rawiller 57
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