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Speedy six-year-old cements her place as one of Choisir’s best.
Snapdancer won't go down as the best female winner of the Memsie Stakes but the victory ensured she sits in good company.
Makybe Diva, Sunline and Atlantic Jewel are among the other mares to win the 1400-metre weight-for-age contest, which has been a Group 1 race since 2013, no doubt standing her in good stead when she goes through the sale ring once he racing days are over.
The Memsie victory was the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained mare's second win at the highest level, following Sangster Stakes (1200m) success earlier this year, and the last few years have proven how popular mares with those credentials are at broodmare sales.
Sunlight (Zoustar), Avantage (Fastnet Rock), Arcadia Queen (Pierro), Tofane (Ocean Park), Melody Belle (Commands), Shout The Bar (Not A Single Doubt), Jameka (Myboycharlie) and Viddora (I Am Invincible) are all multiple Group 1-winning mares who sold for at least $2.5 million since 2018.
Tofane and Melody Belle were both six years of age when they were sold, as Snapdancer is now, proving that older race mares can still attract big dollars.
From the Galileo mare Snapdragon, Snapdancer is by the late Coolmore stallion Choisir, who has proven himself a handy broodmare sire with four-time Group 1 winner Winter, Group 1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes (2000m) winner My Dreamboat and King's Stand Stakes (1000m) and July Cup (1200m) winner Oxted among those out of Choisir mares.
Snapdancer will be one of the best-credentialled daughters of Choisir to go to stud with only one other rating better than the 118 Timeform figure she returned in her Memsie win over I'm Thunderstruck and Cascadian.
Sacred Choice is the highest-rated daughter of Choisir, a son of Danehill Dancer, returning a figure of 120 when she won the Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m).
Gold Water is the only other to rate at least 118, doing so when second to Metal Bender in the 2010 Doomben Cup (2000m).
And while Snapdancer's Memsie figure was nowhere near the 125 Atlantic Jewel went in 2013, it was just one pound lower than Makybe Diva's 2005 figure and one pound superior to the mark Sunline ran in both of her wins, in 2000 and 2001.
The second-highest rating return by a mare in a Memsie Stakes in the past 30 years is Miss Finland, who went 121 in 2007, while the other female winners are 117-raters Magical Miss (2002) and King's Rose (2011) and Dane Ripper, who rated 116 in 1998.
