Champion sire Snitzel has been enjoying a hot run over spring producing the quinella in the Group II MRC Sandown Guineas on Saturday thanks to Snitzanova and Bittercreek and he has also been making his mark as a broodmare sire delivering his tenth stakes-winner this season in that department from an unlikely source.
Trained by Matthew Smith and ridden by Molly Bourke, six year-old Puissance de Lune (IRE) gelding Floating got his first taste of Black Type when scoring a dominant three length win in the $200,000 Listed ATC Cup (2000m) at Rosehill beating dual Group I winner Converge.
It was the first stakes win for apprentice jockey Molly Bourke.
Retained to race by his breeders, Floating has been a work in progress improving with every preparation to date as he has matured and found his niche in the 1600 to 2000m distance range and has won seven races and placed eight times from 30 starts banking over $650,000.
He is the best of three winners from unraced Snitzel mare Goujon, who has not had a foal since 2020 and comes from the family of Australian Horse of the Year and Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate winner Saintly as well as Caulfield Guineas winner God’s Own.
Floating is the fifth stakes-winner for Swettenham Stud’s Puissance de Lune (IRE) and is the 37th stakes-winner and tenth this season for Snitzel as a broodmare sire with his daughters producing Group I winners Private Life, Pinstriped, Captured by Love and top class colt Growing Empire.
