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half-brother to $2million earner and Group II winner Invincibella, three
year-old gelding Secret Blaze became the first stakes-winner for Snitzel's
Group I winning son Sizzling when taking out the Listed MRC Galilee Final at
Caulfield on Saturday.
Prepared by Tony McEvoy, Secret Blaze had been Group III placed twice before so
was overdue for a Black Type win and did the job in style with a two length
victory in the 2425 metre staying test.
Secret Blaze has won three races and placed four times from 16 starts earning
over $260,000 and will now head to Adelaide for a crack at the Group I SAJC
South Australian Derby (2500,) next month.
A $90,000 Inglis Premier purchase from the Millford Thoroughbreds draft for
McEvoy Mitchell Racing, Secret Blaze is the second stakes-winner from unraced
Galileo (IRE) mare Abscond, who comes from the family of Group I SAJC Adelaide
Cup winner The Hind and Listed Geelong Cup winner Oregon Star, so it's probably
no great surprise he has found his forte as a stayer.
Abscond has a weanling colt by another of the young Newgate sires in Extreme
Choice and is now in foal to Spirit of Boom.
Secret Blaze is the first stakes-winner for Sizzling, who also had another
stakes horse on Saturday with Sizzlme finishing third in the Group III SAJC
Auraria Stakes in Adelaide.