Cover image courtesy of Yarrandale Stud
Written by Robert Edwards
Trainer David Harrison is delighted the big syndicate he amalgamated to purchase Snowchino (Maschino) for $22,000, celebrated their first black type success with the mare’s win in the Listed Starstruck Classic (1600 metres).
Snowchino, who was sold at the 2015 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, was from the first crop of WA stallion Maschino (Encosta de Lago), who stands at Alwyn Park Stud at Serpentine.
Alwyn Park will offer a full brother to Snowchino as Lot 179 at the Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, in the Swan Valley, on February 17 and 18.
Snowchino as a yearling
Snowchino took her stakes earnings to $255,120 from her six wins and four placings at 17 starts, when scoring a strong 1l all-the-way win in the Starstruck.
“I buy yearlings on speculation and then find the owners,” Harrison said.
“Some of the people in this syndicate have been with me since I started and others are newcomers.
“It is great for all of them to buy a filly so cheap and have such fun with her. They are a great bunch of people.”
“It is great for all of them to buy a filly so cheap and have such fun with her." - Scott Harrison
Harrison will enter unchartered waters, when he runs Snowchino in the final leg of the spring-summer fillies and mares’ series in the G3 La Trice Classic on January 4.
Snowchino boasts a record of four starts for two wins and two seconds at 1600 metres, but she has yet to be stretched to the 1800 metres of the La Trice.
“I might as well have a crack,” Harrison said.
“She is no 1200 metre horse, with her best distances being at 1400 metres and 1600 metres so far.
“She ran the 1600 metres here out strong enough and if they leave her alone in front she could get away again in the La Trice.”
Red-letter day
Yarradale Stud proprietor Ron Sayers celebrated one of those rare Red-letter days, when sires he owned and part-owned produced seven of the eight winners at Pinjarra last Thursday.
Ron Sayers (right)
War Chant, the sire of this spring’s WA Guineas winner War Saint, produced three winners with Vital Equine and Patronize contributing two winners each.
The streak kicked off with Endovanera (Patronize) and Smile For Me (Patronize) filling the first two placings in the second race.
Casino War (War Chant {USA}) and Goku (Vital Equine {Ire}) fought out the third race.
War Chant (USA) | Standing at Yarrandale Stud
Call Again (War Chant {USA}) kept kicked up in the third race followed by successive winners Nice Go (Vital Equine), Vitalilo (Vital Equine {Ire}), Flower Of War (War Chant {USA}) and Patristic (Patronize).
Sayers had no representatives in the first race.
Another Sayers’ bred galloper Perceptive Miss (Blackfriars) chimed in at Ascot with a narrow win over 1600 metres in the Westspeed Platinum H.
