Blue-blooded
I Am Invincible filly Sangria broke the track record for 1100 metres at
Hawkesbury when winning her maiden earlier this month and stepped it up a notch
to win in midweek company at Canterbury on Wednesday.
The Peter and Paul Snowden trained filly was a touch slow to jump, but worked
through to take the lead and was strong to the line in winning the 1250 metre
Benchmark 64 by a long neck, her second win from four starts.
"She's still learning all the time, so it's good to keep her winning as each
time she steps out she gets better," said Paul Snowden.
Winning rider Tommy Berry was impressed with Sangria and believes she has
stakes potential as her racing manners improve.
"She still only relaxed for a furlong and a half and the rest of the time wants
to pull which told at the end," Berry said.
"She has Black Type potential, she's progressive, it's just a matter of time."
Purchased by James Harron Bloodstock for $650,000 out of the Newgate Farm draft
at the 2018 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale for Fairway Thoroughbreds,
Sangria was foaled and raised at Newgate and is the result of a massive spend
by Newgate and partners at the 2014 Teeley Asset dispersal.
Newgate outlaid $1,500,000 for Sangria's stakes-placed dam Quench The Thirst (Encosta
de Lago) and also purchased her sister Precious Lorraine for $1,500,000 and
half-sisters Your Lifestyle (Hussonet) for $1.200,000, Café Scientific (More
Than Ready) for $650,000 and Princess Narine (Red Ransom) for $600,000.
They are all daughters of Redoute's Choice's stakes-placed sister Monsoon
Wedding whose half-sister Ten Carat Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar) also went the way
of Newgate for $750,000.
Quench the Thirst has a yearling filly
by Snitzel and is due to foal to Merchant Navy.