Silver Slipper Sale Mail – Expensive Colts vs Glamour Fillies

Tara Madgwick - Friday February 18

Since 2012 when the Group II ATC Silver Slipper was won by subsequent Champion 2YO Pierro, the honour roll has included a raft of luminaries with an intriguing field set to do battle on Saturday including three colts that were all purchased for upwards of $1million and three stakes-winning fillies by champion sire I Am Invincible.



The list above features Golden Slipper winners Pierro, Mossfun, She Will Reign and Farnan well as Sweet Idea, Astern, Sunlight and Home Affairs, who all went on to Group I success with the latter set to take on a stellar field in the Group I VRC Lightning Stakes on Saturday.

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The testing material lies with the stakes-winning fillies Queen of the Ball, Cythera and possibly Ebhaar, if she can rebound from her last start failure and a recent trial win indicates this is not mission impossible.

$2.5million Snitzel colt Magic topped the 2021 Inglis Asurtalian Easter Yearling Sale.

X factor comes in the shape of Inglis Easter sale-topper Magic, the $2.5million Snitzel colt, whose full sister Yearning won the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas, while Snitzel colt Best of Bordeaux was an easy winner of Group III ATC Canonbury Stakes on debut.

Joe Pride’s Shalatin could be the upset horse with good form in the spring and two recent trials to tune him right up for this assignment although wide gate no assistance.

This colt comes from the famed Bob and Sandra Peters female Arcadia family that has produced Group I winners Arcadia Dream and Regal Power as well as Group winners Arcadia Dream, Arcadia Prince and Action, so whatever he does this season at two we can expect the best is still to come.


 

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