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Group One Honours For Arrowfield

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Arrowfield Stud took the honours as Australia's leading breeder of Group 1 winners in the 2014/15 season.

Sweet Idea wins the Galaxy
Sweet Idea wins the Galaxy Picture: Racing and Sports

Arrowfield’s four GI winners last season took the number of G1-winning graduates to 54 including 40 being Arrowfield-bred in the stud’s 30 years of operations.

The Snitzel trio Sweet Idea, Hot Snitzel and Wandjina won a total of six Australian Group races last season headed by their G1 victories in the ATC Galaxy, the BTC Cup and the VRC Australian Guineas.

Champion South African filly Majmu (Redoute's Choice x Spontaneous by Hussonet) progressed from her unbeaten 2YO season to claim the G1 Kenilworth Cape Fillies Guineas and G1 Turffontein Empress Club Stakes for Sheikh Hamdan and trainer Mike de Kock.

She also made up a G1 quinella for Redoute's Choice in the Turffontein President's Champions Challenge won by Wylie Hall.

Sweet Idea (Snitzel x Flidais by Timber Country) and Hot Snitzel (Snitzel x Flames of Paris by Blushing Groom) were bred and sold by Arrowfield and Japan’s Katsumi Yoshida, a partnership also responsible for 2008 Horse of the Year Weekend Hussler and 2008 Blue Diamond winner Reaan.

The Gai Waterhouse-trained Sweet Idea was retired after her Galaxy win which capped a stellar $2.4 million career of eight wins (five in Group company) and eight placings (four in G1 races) from 19 starts.

Sweet Idea's part-owner Nick Vass paid $1.6 million to buy her back at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale in May. That completed a $4 million return on the $240,000 that Gai Waterhouse and James Harron paid for her at the same venue three years ago.

Harron also bought Wandjina (Snitzel x La Bamba by Last Tycoon) for $1 million at the 2013 Inglis Easter Sale on behalf of Edmund & Belinda Bateman.

The colt more than fulfilled expectations with his all-the-way Australian Guineas win and two G1 placings that included second, splitting Dissident and Chautauqua in the G1 All Aged Stakes.

Wandjina signed off with a fine effort for sixth in Undrafted's Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Hot Snitzel saved his best until the Brisbane Winter Carnival for his Triple Crown-managed band of owners when he proved too strong in the BTC Cup at Doomben.

It was the 6YO gelding's sixth Group success among the eight wins and eight placings that have returned $1.2 million on the $60,000 that Chris and Michael Ward paid for him at the 2010 Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale.

Trained by Gerald Ryan for most of his career, Hot Snitzel was transferred to Peter and Paul Snowden before his G1 win and remains in training for 2015/16.

The quartet of G1 winners led a collection of 16 Arrowfield-bred winners of 26 Group and Listed Races in 2014/15.

All were offered for sale at auction and 15 of them sold for prices ranging from the $20,000 paid for the weanling Lady Jivago to the seven-figure colt Wandjina.

Perth stakeswinner Rock Magic was sold out of training after four wins with Paul Messara.

The list doesn't include champion sprinter Lankan Rupee (Redoute's Choice), who won the G1 Manikato Stakes and G1 Lightning Stakes, and Miracles Of Life (Not A Single Doubt), the winner of the G1 Robert Sangster Stakes.

Both were both born and raised at Arrowfield for Teeley Assets.

Listed winners Bouzy Rouge and Modello, both by Snitzel, are also omitted as they were both offered for sale by Arrowfield on behalf of their private breeders.

The full list of Arrowfield's stakes-winning graduates last season is:

2014/15 STAKESWINNER
& Co-Breeder

SIRE-DAM

STAKES WINS
Trainer(s)

SALE & PRICE 
Prizemoney

HOT SNITZEL
with Jungle Pocket

Snitzel-Flames of Paris

G1
Peter & Paul Snowden

Inglis Melbourne
$60,000 
$1.2 million

MAJMU

Redoute's Choice-Spontaneous

G1 x2, G3
Mike de Kock

Inglis Easter
$300,000
2.2m Rand

SWEET IDEA
with Jungle Pocket

Snitzel- Flidais

G1, G2 x2
Gai Waterhouse

Magic Millions
$240,000
$2.4 million

WANDJINA

Snitzel-La Bamba

G1, G3
Gai Waterhouse

Inglis Easter 
$1 million
$653,000

MOONOVERMANHATTAN
with Planette & Belford

Manhattan Rain-Lunaspur

G2
Mick Price

Inglis Easter
$100,000
$279,000

STEPITUP
with Planette

Hussonet-Ain't Seen Nothin'

Sgp-2 x2, Sgp-3
Laurie Laxon

Inglis Melbourne
$90,000
$S1.9 million

AMORINO
with Jungle Pocket

Snitzel-Steal My Love

G3, LR x2
Archie Alexander

Magic Millions
$70,000
$763,000

BURNSTONE
with Klawervlei Stud

Redoute's Choice-Merlene de Lago

LR 
Robbie Griffiths

Inglis Melbourne
$40,000
$72,000 
Died after his debut

HIJACK HUSSY
with Planette & Belford

Hussonet-Joy Ride

LR
Tony Gollan

Magic Millions 
$62,000
$218,000

MANAPINE
with Jungle Pocket

Manhattan Rain-Anapine

LR
Nigel Blackiston

Inglis Easter
$200,000
$113,000

ROCK MAGIC
with Planette

Redoute's Choice-Rockabubble

LR x2
Chris Gangemi

Inglis Easter
Passed
$358,000

SMOKO
with Planette

Snitzel-London Lights
LR
Ross Price
 Inglis Melbourne
$75,000
$251,000

WILD RAIN
with Planette

Manhattan Rain-North Flower

LR
Mark Kavanagh

Magic Millions
$150,000
$220,000

YGRITTE
with Planette & Belford, Maldale, Michael & Lucy Messara & Tim Noonan

Snitzel-Deputy Lil

LR
Gerald Ryan

Inglis Classic
$135,000
$314,000

LADY JIVAGO
with International Equities

Beneteau-Hussterics

R-LR
Jeff Englebrecht

Magic Millions Weanling
$20,000 
$192,000

ODYSSEY MOON
with Jungle Pocket

Snitzel-Run to the Moon

R-LR
Rod Northam

Inglis Classic 
$25,000 
$435,000

 


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