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By Murray Fish · Posted
A questitmat price? more than the filly? -
By Murray Fish · Posted
The owners of champion mare Winx will offer the 25-time Group 1 winner’s second live foal to the market, entrusting auction house Inglis to sell her Snitzel colt next year on their behalf. The colt by Snitzel out of Winx with Inglis' Sebastian Hutch. )Photo: Inglis) The valuable colt by Arrowfield’s late four-time champion sire will take centre stage at Inglis’ Riverside Stables complex in early April, two years after his half-sister by Pierro sold for a world record $10 million at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale. The colt’s breeders Peter and Patty Tighe, Woppitt Bloodstock and Elizabeth and Rick Treweeke asked Inglis to pitch for the opportunity to sell the November 25-born colt. Armed with the precedent of last year’s yearling sale benchmark price and the associated fanfare, Inglis put forward what chief executive Sebastian Hutch says was a compelling and ultimately successful case to sell Winx’s first colt. “I suppose the process really was reasonably similar (to when the Pierro filly was canvassed for sale), although it has happened slightly earlier in the calendar year than what's happened with the filly,” Hutch told The Straight. “Certainly from our end, we built a good rapport with the ownership group through the sale of the filly in 2024. “It was a fantastic experience and I suppose our whole team felt like we worked hard and effectively in making a positive one for the owners. So, I think we had some credits in the bank with them.” advertisement The Pierro filly’s sale attracted global headlines within and outside racing and bloodstock circles due to her rarity and the fact horses of her pedigree are rarely sold by their breeders. An emotional Debbie Kepitis of Woppitt Bloodstock paid $10 million to buy out the Treweekes and Tighes, holding off the the challenge from American owner and breeder John Stewart who lived up to his public statements that he’d go to $9 million in an effort to buy Winx’s first foal. Named Quinceanera, the unraced two-year-old is in training with Chris Waller, the man who guided Winx throughout her remarkable 43-start career. Hutch has inspected the Snitzel colt a few times this year and he has been taken by the colt’s demeanour and conformation with a “nice shape” and “good, clean limbs”. “Probably the first thing that struck me when I saw him for the first time was I was really taken aback by how strong he was when I saw him in the mid-summer of this year, back in January. I was just a bit shocked at how strong he was,” Hutch said. “He was a very impressive horse then, and I've seen him a couple of times since. Obviously, he's still a very young horse and he's changed and grown and developed and what have you, but I took real encouragement from that first time I saw him. The colt out of Winx is expected to be highly sought after. {Photo: Inglis) “Obviously, his sister, from my experience, was quite similar to the dam, just in terms of colour and just even her aesthetics through her head, etc. “This horse has markings that people will see as being consistent with plenty of nice Snitzels that they've seen, a bit of white through his face.” Peter Tighe has little doubt that Winx’s Snitzel colt will command attention from domestic and overseas owners when he ventures into the Sydney sales ring. “The thrill the sale of the Pierro filly last year gave the ownership group was indescribable, it absolutely blew our minds, the team at Inglis did an incredible job and we think the Snitzel colt will get the attention of investors from right around the world in 2026,” Tighe said. “The journey Winx, and then her Pierro daughter, has taken us on has been incredible and now somebody else gets the rare opportunity to buy a son of arguably the greatest race mare we have ever seen, certainly in our eyes at least.’’ Snitzel died earlier this month at a time when his progeny have never been so highly sought after, with his current yearlings averaging a career-high $656,889 and selling to a high of $2.8 million at the Magic Millions in January. The appearance of Stewart, now a major bloodstock investor globally, for the first time at the 2024 Easter sale via Inglis managing director Mark Webster ensured there was sales ring theatrics like no other and the $10 million result, making the Pierro filly the highest-priced yearling ever sold. ADVERTISEMENT Hutch says there were other international buyers who were interested in Winx’s first foal who could be bidders on the colt next year. “There was certainly one major Japanese investor. I think most people would have thought they would have had enough money to buy the filly at Easter in 2024, but they pretty much couldn't even get a bid in,” Hutch said. “I know that was a source of disappointment for them, but I think the colt has the capacity to make no less appeal to them, maybe even more. He's a pretty fascinating young horse. “Hopefully he can have a good spring, a straightforward summer and then prep nicely for the sale.” Kepitis is understandably enamored with the colt. “He’s a very handsome boy. Just wait until you see him, he’s got everything going for him,’’ Kepitis said. “From the day he was born he’s been a very charismatic horse. He has been bred to win a Cox Plate and anyone who looks at him tells me that he has all the right physical characteristics to be an elite racehorse.’’ Winx, a four-time Cox Plate winner and one of Australia’s best racehorses of all time whose racecourse feats transcended the racing public, has endured a difficult time as a broodmare. Her first foal, by I Am Invincible, was born dead, prompting her owners to rest the mare for a season. She subsequently had the Pierro filly before failing to get in foal to Snitzel in 2022, but the mating was successful a year later, producing the colt. His late birth date again saw Winx’s owners rest her last year with Darley’s returning champion young shuttle sire Too Darn Hot in line to cover the Street Cry mare in the upcoming breeding season. -
He definitely gave you a thrill mate.Looks like he might enjoy the caper. -
By Murray Fish · Posted
(blush) meant to say $5... one cash bet and a series of deposit bonus bets.. have licked you a pm... -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
It felt as though Triston Moodley had an angel on his shoulder as he steered Beetlegeuse (NZ) (Rageese) to victory in the Northland Business Systems (1600m) at Ruakaka on Saturday. A son of Rageese, Beetlegeuse was bred by Windsor Park Stud co-owner Gina Schick, who races the four-year-old in the care of Sam Mynott. Just over a month ago, tragedy struck the Schick family, with 10-year-old Jimmy losing his life in an ATV accident. In the maiden contest, Moodley wore the familiar Windsor Park colours – including Jimmy’s favourite cap, and his mount was full of running early as they took up the pacemaking role. Beetlegeuse travelled beautifully, and after kicking clear at the top of the straight, he was never in danger, saluting by two lengths over Embossed. Despite closing at nearly $40, Mynott had been quietly confident in the gelding, who was third-up this preparation. “I was actually quite confident with him, his work has been outstanding and he was quite unlucky in his first up run, then just didn’t cop the wet track at Tauranga” she said. “I was pretty happy with the way he was going, I was just praying for a semi-decent track to give him a go on, which we got up there on Saturday. “I left it up to Triston, but I wanted to be nearer to the front, whether we led or not was up to him. It worked out well and he gave him a beautiful ride – he made all the right decisions.” Mynott shared that much of Beetlegeuse’s race preparation had come at the Windsor Park property in Cambridge, making it very much a team effort. “It was very special, the horse wore Jimmy’s cap which was pretty cool and it was super to get this win for Gina,” she said. “His last three gallops were on the beautiful grass track out at Windsor Park, and there has been a lot of people involved with him, so it was a fitting result. “He came to me towards the end of last year, he had a few little issues that we were able to iron out. He had to have surgery to get an infected tooth pulled out, which set us back a couple of months, so we’ve been patient with him. “Fair play to Gina for giving him that time, and for trusting me that he was worth carrying on for.”Out of an unraced Niagara mare Rose Grace, Beetlegeuse was Mynott’s 16th winner of the season from just 92 starters. View the full article
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