Best On Breeding - Golden Slipper Edition

Mark Smith - Thursday March 18

The weather is looking bleak in Sydney ahead of Saturday’s $3,500,000 Group 1 Golden Slipper at Rosehill Gardens, where three Newgate Farm new boys are well placed to add the biggest prize of all for the juveniles.

Golden Slipper winner Capitalist has the favourite Profiteer who is out of a daughter of Snitzel.

It did not take Snitzel long to make an impact as a broodmare sire as his first crop daughter Eye For Fun left a Golden Slipper winner (Mossfun) as her first foal.

Snitzel has a strong chance this year with the unbeaten Four Moves Ahead.

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Arrowfield stalwarts feature strongly in the Slipper as broodmare sires with Redoute’s Choice (Artorius and Anamoe), Flying Spur (Home Affairs and Kalashnikov) and Not A Single Doubt, who is the sire of the dam of Shaquero and sire of Queen Of Wizardry and Mallory.

Artorius wins the Blue Diamond (Reg Ryan/Racing Photos)

The Flying Artie colt Artorius put up a remarkable performance to win the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield.

Purchased by Anthony Freedman Racing/Blue Sky Bloodstock P/L (FBAA) for $120,000 out of the Vinery Stud draft at the 2020 Gold Coast Yearling Sale, he is the least expensive of all the runners that sold at public auction.

Artorius descends from the remarkable La Troienne, the great, great granddam of Priceless Gem (Hail To Reason).

The winner of the Futurity Stakes and Frizette Stakes, Priceless Gem is the dam of the incomparable Allez France, the unraced Noble Bijou who was an extraordinary influence on this side of the equator, and the stakes-placed Lady Winborne (Secretariat), the dam of six stakes winners and the fourth dam of Artorius’s dam Gracie’s Lass (Redoute’s Choice).

Dark Jewel may not have the worldwide influence of La Troienne, but her influence lives on through the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Profiteer.

Profiteer

The son of Capitalist was a hugely impressive winner when on debut at Flemington in December. He then blew the field away in the $2million Inglis Millennium.

With a four-week break, Profiteer lost few friends when edged out by Anamoe in the Group III Todman Stakes over the Golden Slipper course and distance on March 6.

Profiteer was a $165,000 purchase by Roll The Dice Racing Pty Ltd / Rogers Bloodstock out of the Newgate Farn draft at the 2020 Classic Yearling Sale.

He is the first foal of the well-performed Snitzel mare Athena Lass, a Moonee Valley 2yo winner when on debut and placed in the Group III Quezette Stakes at Caulfield.

A half-sister to the Listed VRC Gibson Carmichael Stakes winner Euryale (Lonhro), Athena Lass is out of the Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) mare Meduesa, a daughter of the Group 1 Flight Stakes and Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner Danglissa (Danzero).

The fourth dam of Danglissa is the remarkable Dark Jewel. A 1,200guineas purchase at the 1955 Inglis Yearling Sale, Dark Jewel won three races before going through the ring again at four, where she was purchase by her trainer Fil Allotta for 525guineas on behalf of the Tait family.

 Dark Jewel had 11 foals, 10 made it to the track, and nine were winners.

They included the stakes-winners Baguette, Cabochon, Betelgeuse, Heirloom and Birthright.

Baguette won the Golden Slipper in 1970 and sired the 1980 Slipper winner Dark Eclipse.

 It is hard to see Stay Inside not playing a part in the finish of the Golden Slipper.

Stay Inside (Steve Hart)

The Extreme Choice colt is yet to register a stakes win, so there will be no better place to right that wrong than in the Golden Slipper.

Stay Inside won easily on debut at Randwick back in January then improved on that again three weeks later with a four-length romp on a soft track at Randwick in the Pierro Plate.

He was a troubled fourth in the Group II Todman Stakes at his mosr recent start.

A $200,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Newgate Farm draft for Freedman Brothers/Rick Connolly Bloodstock, Stay Inside was a successful pinhook, having been bought originally from the Kingstar Farm draft at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale for $60,000.

Bred by Kingstar Farm, Stay Inside is the first winner for Nothin Leica Storm, purchased by Kingstar for $90,000 from the Widden Stud draft at the 2018 Inglis Chairman’s Sale when carrying the Golden Slipper hopeful.  

If that looks cheap, consider that Nothin Leica Storm was sold for just $1,000 at the 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale following a career on the track that yielded one win, in a maiden at Cessnock from 20 starts.

Nothin Leica Storm is a half-sister by Anabaa (USA) to the dam of stakes-placed Dinnigan and Pouting Lips from the family of Group I Caulfield Guineas winner Wonderful World.

 Selections:

1 Stay Inside (Extreme Choice)

2 Artorius (Flying Artie)

3 Profiteer (Capitalist)

4 Four Moves Ahead (Snitzel)

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