Arugamama Wins First Up
Footnote since this story- Arugamama has placed in two stakes races and contested the Group 1 SA Derby. She is currently spelling and will then be prepared for a spring campaign.
Aruguamama, won at her third start of her Autumn three year old campaign at Morphettville on the 25th of March. She was first up after having two very good runs in the Spring for a fourth on debut followed by a third at Mophettville.
This filly was the only filly I was interested in purchasing after spotting her “big walk” at the Adelaide Magic Millions nearly two years ago when inspecting the Mill Park draft. I compared notes with agent Suman Hedge, who I was working with at the time, and he had her on his list.
We then set about working together to buy her for our Snippets Racing clients. It turned out we were underbidders after teaming up with the Hayes boys to buy her. Leon Macdonald who trained her Hobart Cup winning half-sister, Pretty Punk, outbid us.
A few days later I was sitting in my driveway rueing the fact I had missed out on this gorgeous filly in Adelaide. I picked up the phone and rang Leon Macdonald out of the blue to enquire about the ownership group of the filly. He told me he just liked her and had bought her because he liked her on type and he knew the family well having trained or still training her siblings. I got excited when the conversation go around to the fact he didn’t have any particular stable clients in mind and he had shares for sale. I then asked the question could Snippets Racing possibly have half of the filly. Thankfully, Leon agreed to this and her kindly offered us the colours. The rest as they say is history.
The Macdonald/Gluyas stable has been very patient with Arugamama and this patience looks like it will be rewarded in spades on what we saw from her first up run. We won’t get ahead of ourselves but lets just say she has a very bright future on what she’s shown in her three starts to date.
Arugamama is from the first crop of promising young sire, Churchill, who has also produced the Australian Guineas runner up, Attrition, in his first crop. Attrition was also bred at Mill Park.
Incidentally, if your wondering about her name Arugamama. She was named by Carly Taylor a Snippets Racing client and life coach who through studying Japanese psychology learnt about the principles of Arugamama which is based on an acceptance of things the way that they are is a key requirement for taking action. Simplified as the 3 A’s- Acknowledge. Accept. Act. How the Japanese psychology is connected to the filly is her mother, Reliability, was bred in Japan and was Japanese owned.
I look back on it now and it was Arugamama how Snippets Racing came to be involved with this horse. We acknowledge she was a filly we needed in our stable. We accepted that we had been beaten at auction by Leon. We acted by picking up the phone to enquire about the horse. The outcome, a beautiful filly in our stable named Arugamama.