Best Of Bordeaux Leads Home a 1-2 for Snitzel in Silver Slipper

Mark Smith - Saturday February 19

A quinella in the Group II Fujitsu General Silver Slipper Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill for champion stallion Snitzel with the Kacy Fogden-trained Best Of Bordeaux making it two for two when holding the barnstorming finish of Magic, the most expensive yearling sold in Australia last year.

Two for two for Best Of Bordeaux (image Steve Hart)

A first-up winner of the Group III Canonbury Stakes, Best Of Bordeaux was again partnered by Sam Clipperton. Among the best to begin, Best Of Bordeaux was caught three wide before Clipperton pressed on. He led them into the straight, but drifted back to the fence, which had been a no-go area all day.

Willie Pike came from near last with a weaving run on the $2.5million Easter yearling purchase Magic to get within a half-length of the winner with the I Am invincible filly Cythera one and a quarter lengths back in third.

“It’s pretty exciting. We were a little bit worried there, we were quite close to the rail, it was borderline, but I think it speaks to the horse,” Fogden said.

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“He has obviously got quite a lot of ability and he has slightly defied the odds there.”

“He is just very free-running so although he was three-deep and out wide, the key is just to let him run along.

“I had in my head that we perhaps wouldn’t have another start before the Golden Slipper, and we would back off and maybe trial if we needed to. He’s not an overly big horse, he is very clean-winded.

“But tradition would probably tell us another run wouldn’t go astray. We will just see how he pulls up and lets the horse tell us.”

Bred and part-owned by Gerry Harvey, Best Of Bordeaux was a $425,000 purchase by Kacy Fogden Racing from the Baramul Stud draft at the 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Carrying the colours of the Fung family’s Aquis Stud, Best Of Bordeaux is the second foal of the handy racemare Chateau Cheval, one of nine winners for Baramul Stud’s amazing servant Lady Capel.

A stakes-placed daughter of Last Tycoon, Lady Capel is the dam of Group 1 winner and successful stallion Casino Prince, Group III winner Tagus, and Listed winner Lord of The Land and Metallurgical.

A half-sister to Palia and Just Awesome, Lady Capel is also the dam of Lady Paget the dam of Group 1 JJ Atkins Plate winner Prince Fawaz.

Chateau Cheval missed in 2019 and 2020. She was covered by Written Tycoon last spring.

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Race Result - Fujitsu General Silver Slipper Gr2 1100m

Rosehill Track: Soft(6) Time: 1:04.69
1
Best Of Bordeaux
- 2c Snitzel (AUS) x Chateau Cheval (AUS) (High Chaparral (IRE))
Tnr: Kacy Fogden Rdr: S Clipperton 56.5
MM Gold Coast Yearling Sale $650,000
Seller: Baramul Stud, Widden Valley, NSW
Buyer: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Racing/Kestrel Thoroughbreds/Kia Ora Stud
2
0.5
Magic
- 2c Snitzel (AUS) x Rising Romance (NZ) (Ekraar (USA))
Tnr: M, W & J Hawkes Rdr: W Pike 56.5
3
1.8
Cythera
- 2f I Am Invincible (AUS) x Helena's Secret (USA) (Five Star Day (USA))
Tnr: P & P Snowden Rdr: Tommy Berry 54.5
I Am Invincible
4
1.9
Ojai
- 2f Exceed And Excel (AUS) x Matilija (AUS) (Medaglia D'Oro (USA))
Tnr: James Cummings Rdr: Tim Clark 54.5
5
2.0
Queen Of The Ball
- 2f I Am Invincible (AUS) x Miss Debutante (AUS) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: R & M Freedman Rdr: Rachel King 54.5
6
2.1
Boyfriend
- 2c Snitzel (AUS) x Exclusive Lass (AUS) (Nicconi (AUS))
Tnr: G Ryan & S Alexiou Rdr: C Schofield 56.5
7
4.5
Shalatin
- 2c Shalaa (IRE) x Arcadia Delight (AUS) (Domesday (AUS))
Tnr: Joseph Pride Rdr: Regan Bayliss 56.5
8
5.4
Spacewalk
- 2c Exosphere (AUS) x Benenden (AUS) (Dubawi (IRE))
Tnr: James Cummings Rdr: G Schofield 56.5
9
6.1
Athletica
- 2c Exceed And Excel (AUS) x Queen Of Eight (AUS) (Haradasun (AUS))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: J Parr 56.5
10
14.9
Ebhaar
- 2f I Am Invincible (AUS) x Maroon Bay (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Tnr: P & P Snowden Rdr: K Mc Evoy 54.5
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