9th 2YO Group 1 winner for Snitzel

Campione D’Italia’s big finish for 4th in the Golden Slipper G1 was a sure sign he would relish the 1400 metres of the $1 million ATC Inglis Sires’ G1 on Day 1 of The Championships at Royal Randwick. 

And sure enough, he did, becoming Snitzel’s 27th Group 1 winner and the ninth of Snitzel’s many brilliant progeny to achieve that level of success at two. Like all but one of the 5 other colts in that group of elite juvenile winners, Campione D’Italia has now secured a future stud career.

Even better, Snitzel also supplied the third placegetter, Inglis Millennium RL winner Fireball, and the dam of the runner-up Miss Chanel (by Arrowfield Group 1 graduate Tagaloa), echoing the all-Snitzel trifecta in the 2017 Inglis Sires’ won by Invader from Summer Passage and Trapeze Artist.

All class, all the way 🇮🇹 ✨

Campione D’Italia motors home to win the G1 Sires’ for team @cwallerracing – @mcacajamez! @aus_turf_club pic.twitter.com/z3bluCrfGE

— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) April 4, 2026

Immediately after the race, Campione D’Italia’s jockey James McDonald was already thinking about the Champagne Stakes G1 on 18 April. 

“He’s a sensational horse…He’s beautifully bred and is a horse with a real future, I’m sure he’ll run the 1600 metres right out.

“Great to see him put it together today, we’ve always had a big opinion of him. Chris and the team have done such a good job to keep him improving with each start.”

Campione D’Italia was a $500,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast purchase for China Horse Club, Newgate Bloodstock & partners including the colt’s breeder Gerry Harvey. He traces to the influential broodmare Summoned, whose 40 stakes-winning descendants include five other Group 1 winners Zeditave, Greys Inn, Melito (by Redoute’s Choice), Norzita & Smart Call, and Campione D’Italia’s brilliant Group-winning grand-dam Military Rose.

Much further back, this is the illustrious 1-n family of the 1897 One Thousand Guineas winner Chelandry, ancestress of Classic winners Never Say Die & High Chaparral, Genuine Risk, Ravinella, Shadeed & Swale among others.  

Support players for Snitzel on The Championships card were 2YO colt The Next Episode (2nd, ATC Kindergarten S. G3) and 3YO gelding Matias (3rd, ATC Carbine Club S. G3). However, the Champion Sire’s day finished not at Randwick but at Ascot in Perth, where the unbeaten 2YO filly Aurum Belle, already among his 15 stakeswinners this season, gave her rivals absolutely no quarter in the $200,000 WATC Gimcrack S. 1100m G3. 

Aurum Belle wins the $200,000 G3 Gimcrack Stakes! She’s on track to take on the boys in the Karrakatta! pic.twitter.com/ZiJN9Mgwhu

— Racing WA TV (@RacingWATV) April 4, 2026

Given that her winning time of 1:04.24 was more than a second faster than Beatty  in the Perth Stakes LR for 2YO colts & geldings, Aurum Belle will be a warm favourite for the $500,000 Karrakatta Plate G2 on 18 April.

Bred by China Horse Club Racing & GO Bloodstock, Aurum Belle is the second foal of multiple Group 2 winner Dame Giselle (by I Am Invincible) and was purchased by trainer Neville Parnham and Santo Guagliardo’s Ridgeport for $725,000 from The Chase at Inglis Easter. 
Ridgeport now races the filly in partnership with Lyn Sayers’ Yarradale Stud.

The 42nd same-day stakes double of Snitzel’s career also takes his current season Australian prizemoney to $19.7 million, firming up his prospects of adding a 5th General Sires’ title to his exceptional record.