Snitzel does it again!
Godolphin colt Amur (blue cap) becomes Snitzel's third winner of the TL. Baillieu H. G3, after Willimsburg in 2022 and Flying Snitzel in 2012. (PHOTO: Sportpix)
A week after notching up his second Golden Slipper winner, Snitzel has added his 30th 2YO Group winner Amur in the $200,000 ATC T.L. Baillieu H. 1400m G3.
It’s the third win from 5 starts for Godolphin’s strapping chestnut colt, who drove hard late to defeat his stablemate Inhibitions.
Bookmakers immediately lowered Amur’s odds for the $1 million Inglis Sires’ G1 on Day 1 of The Championships at Royal Randwick next Saturday.
AMUR (2 c ex Leopard by Animal Kingdom) leads home a quinella for @godolphin in the T L Baillieu Handicap (Gr 3, 1400m) at Rosehill and in the process becomes @ArrowfieldStud Snitzel’s 134th SW pic.twitter.com/Hz3JUn2o8z
— ANZ Bloodstock (@anz_news) March 25, 2023
Amur’s jockey Nash Rawiller said, “He really showed a lot of fight and he was strong through the line and should be able to get further. At this stage the world’s his oyster, it is a great stepping stone.”
Amur, named for a rare leopard subspecies, is the first foal out of Leopard (by Animal Kingdom), a half-sister of Champion 3YO Filly Alizee and Group 1 winner & sire Astern. Leopard is now in foal to Dundeel.
Snitzel’s 17 stakeswinners this season include four 2YOs (Group 1 winner Shinzo, Group winners Amur & Empire Of Japan and New Zealand Listed winner Ethereal Star). The four-time Champion Sire is second on the current Australian General Sires’ Premiership with more than $14.2 million prizemoney, and heads the 2YO Sires’ table with $4.2 million.
Amur is the 134th stakeswinner of Snitzel’s exceptional career, which continues to grow at the rate of a stakes win every 12 days or so.
The 2023 Inglis Easter catalogue features 24 colts & 16 fillies by Snitzel,
among them 6 colts & 6 fillies in the Arrowfield draft.
