G2 TAB Light Fingers S., $200,000, 1200m
So game charging through late at her first run since the spring, Fangirl (Sebring) was able to nose out her more fancied stablemate Espiona (Extreme Choice) who lost no fans with her gallant effort.
A homebred for the Ingham family racing in their famous cerise silks, Fangirl is one of the 73 stakes winners for her late G1 Golden Slipper S.-winning sire and one of four winners for her triple Listed-winning dam Little Surfer Girl (a $1.5 million yearling by Encosta De Lago).
Fangirl, who is now a triple stakes winner, is a granddaughter of the wonderful mare Special Harmony (Spinning World {USA}) who won 10 races, three of those at Group 1 level.
Special Harmony's dam Marooned Lady (Marooned {GB}) was also classy, that G2 WA Sires' Produce S. winner producing 10 winners including the G2 Perth Cup winner King Canute (King Of Kings {Ire}) and the G2 Karrakatta Plate winner Redwoldt (King Of Kings {Ire}).
Fangirl is one of the six Sebring stakes winners out of an Encosta De Lago (Fairy King {USA}) mare, a cross that provides for a 4 X 4 duplication of Rolls (USA) (Mr Prospector {USA}), dam of Sebring's dam sire Flying Spur and grandam of Encosta De Lago. This is the Fanfreluche (Can) (Northern Dancer {Can}) to which Revolutionary Miss (Russian Revolution) - a stakes winner earlier in the day - is also line-bred.
Hailing from the family of the high-class stallions Red Ransom (USA) and Showdown (GB), Little Surfer Girl was served last spring by Wootton Bassett (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}) having missed the previous season. Her most recent foal is a yearling colt by Pariah (Redoute's Choice).
G2 The Agency Apollo S., $250,000, 1400m
It was no surprise to see Think It Over (So You Think {NZ}) kick off his campaign with a win but few were expecting that he would so dominate such a hot field.
Eleven times successful from 31 starts, the Bylong Park homebred 6-year-old is now a seven-times Group winner with a prizemoney tally in excess of $4.3 million.
One of Coolmore Stud's dual G1 W.S Cox Plate winner So You Think's (NZ) 38 stakes winners and the one of three (Nimalee and Midnight Blue the others) out of a Zabeel (NZ) (Sir Tristram {Ire}) mare.
His dam is the unraced Personal Service (Zabeel {NZ}), half-sister to Scenic's (Ire) Group 1 siblings Universal Prince and Universal Queen from the immediate family of fellow Scenic big-race winner Blevic.
Last spring paying a return visit to So You Think, Personal Service was not served the previous spring having previously lost an Exosphere (Lonhro) colt. Also dam of the city winner Miss Royale (Stratum), her most recent foal is the Denis Pagan-trained 2-year-old colt Normie No Show (Exosphere) - a $55,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast National Yearling Sale graduate.
Think It Over boasts crosses of the influential mares Special (USA) (Forli {Arg}), Perfume II (GB) (Badruddin {Fr}) and Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}) and is also line-bred to the great horses stallions Northern Dancer (Can), Mill Reef (USA) and Round Table (USA). He is a descendant of Perfume II's prolific third dam Marchetta (GB) (Marco {GB}).
G3 Southern Cross S., $160,000, 1200m
Dominant off good trial form at his first run since the spring, Lost And Running (NZ) (Per Incanto {USA}) enhanced his already excellent record - this win his eighth from 13 starts.
Last year's Listed Luskin Star S. and The Hunter winner, he was bred by JML Bloodstock and purchased by trainer John O'Shea for $40,000 at the 2018 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
One of the 22 stakes winners for Little Avondale's Street Cry (Ire) stallion Per Incanto (USA), Lost And Running is the first runner for the unplaced Dreamlife (NZ) (Danroad) who missed to Savabeel (Zabeel {NZ}) in 2020 with her most recent foal being a yearling full sister to Lost And Running.
Dreamlife's dam Make Me Dream (Ire) (Sadler's Wells {USA}) is also dam of the stakes winners A Chance To Dream (NZ) (Volksraad {GB}), Kiss Me Ketut (NZ) (Danroad) and Fast Love (NZ) Fastnet Rock), in turn dam of the Listed winner Kaonic (NZ) (Savabeel). Make Me Dream's dam Heavenly Calm (USA) (Diesis {GB}) and grandam Smooth Bore (USA) (His Majesty {USA}) are both stakes winners.
Lost And Running boasts multiple strains of the prolific Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA})/Almahmoud (USA) (Mahmoud {Fr}) family... Northern Dancer (Can) (Nearctic {Can}), Halo (USA) (Hail To Reason {USA}), Danehill (USA) (Danzig {USA}) and Maciavellian (USA) (Mr Prospector {USA}) whilst also carrying a cross of the Kentucky Oaks heroine Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}).
G3 Robrick Lodge Triscay S., $160,000, 1200m
It was a well-deserved and easy maiden stakes victory for Snapdancer (Choisir) who having her second run for the year having been a dominant winner of the Magic Millions Fillies & Mares at the Gold Coast.
A five-time winner from 16 starts, the Katom bred 5-year-old was purchased by Spicer Thoroughbreds for $180,000 at the 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
She is the 101st stakes winner for the late, great Choisir (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and one of six winners for the imported mare Snapdragon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) - also dam of the Group 3-placed Drago (Danehill Dancer {Ire}).
A daughter of the stakes-placed Continuous (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}), Snapdragon died in 2020 with her final foal being a yet to be named 2-year-old filly by Choisir's son The Mission; her second last foal being the unraced 3-year-old Illawarra, a full brother to Snapdancer.
Snapdancer was the second descendant of the great Mumtaz Mahal (GB) (The Tetrarch {GB}) to win a stakes race in Australia on Saturday - Wyclif the other. She is bred on the successful Choisir/Sadler's Wells (USA) (Northern Dancer {Can}) combination, one which has also produced another 26 stakes winners, five of those successful at Group 1 level.
