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Son of Snitzel looking to go one better than Magic Millions and Blue Diamond results
Henry Field hopes it's a case of third time lucky for Russian Revolution in Saturday's $5 million Group 1 Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill.
Newgate's star first-season sire has been a key player at all the big juvenile dances so far this season but come away with nothing by heartache.
Russian Conquest finished a neck second to Coolangatta in the $2.5 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m), while her Peter & Paul Snowden -trained stablemate Revolutionary Miss came even closer in the Blue Diamond Stakes when beaten a short-half-head by Daumier.
"For a first-season sire to be beaten a lip in a Magic Millions by one horse and then beaten a lip in a Blue Diamond with another is really unlucky," Field, Newgate's managing director, said.
"But hopefully one of the three he's got in on Saturday can get their head in front in the Golden Slipper," Field said.
Russian Conquest, a $425,000 January Magic Millions purchase, and Revolutionary Miss, who cost $195,000 at the same sale, will be joined by homebred Rise Of The Masses in the Golden Slipper.
He matches the feat of Capitalist, who stands alongside Russian Revolution at Newgate, and the legendary Redoute's Choice in having three members of his first crop in the Golden Slipper.
Russian Revolution retired amid much fanfare after winning the 2018 Oakleigh Plate, the second Group 1 win of a career that also included victory over eventual dual Everest winner Redzel, and noted mudlark, on a Heavy 10 track in The Galaxy.
The son of Snitzel and Ballet D'amour, who also produced Home Affairs' dam Miss Interiors, was one of the busiest stallions in his first breeding season, covering 226 mares at a fee of $55,000, and Field said the early signs were extremely promising.
"We expected him to be a good stallion but we didn't to have three runners in the Slipper in his first year," he said.
"If you had have said to me we'd have one runner in the Slipper I'd would have said that's a great effort for a horse that got better at three and even better again at four."
Russian Conquest a $14 chance in Ladbrokes' Golden Slipper market, just shading Revolutionary Miss ($16) with Rise Of The Masses a $41 chance.
He is one of only two first-season sires represented in this year's Slipper with Lady Laguna's sire Overshare, who stood at Spendthrift, the other.
Arrowfield stallion Shalaa, who also has three in the field of 16 plus four emergencies, is the only other sire with multiple runners.
