We are Hotting Up for the Spring at Snippets

Things are hotting up on the track for the Snippets Stable today and we are better positioned heading into a spring than ever before. We’ve built our team from scratch and like Carlton we may be about to unleash! Hopefully, there is a Curnow in amongst there who can set things alight. If anyone asked me who I’m barracking for in the finals with my Cats nowhere to be seen I would have to say Carlton. If I’m honest with you I have barracked for three footy teams in my lifetime. But I swear no more changes and I’ll stick with the Cats to my grave. Growing up in a footy mad household I barracked for Carlton until the age of 6, swapping to North when Barassi moved to North and my prep mates all firmly on the North bandwagon convinced me that Carlton was going nowhere and Noth was the team to be on. Peer group pressure won and I became North from the age of 6 to about 25. I then met a Geelong girl, moved to Geelong and started going to every home Geelong game. I decided it made sense to switch to Geelong as the passion just wasn’t there for North throughout my 20s. There was something about the Wayne Carey and Pagan’s Heroes era, I just felt they weren’t a patch on my North heroes growing up like Malcolm Blight, Schima and Keith Greg. So I switched to  Cats. Now if you combine the North and Cats premiership eras I could well and truly be the most successful supporter in AFL history. Anyway, I think this gives a bit of background to the support I am throwing behind the Blues this finals campaign. I also feel a little connection to Charlie Curnow as he went to the same school as my two oldest kids Milly and Gus and was in their house, Keith House. 

So back on Snippets and why we are about to unleash. Well, we have 8 talented horses up and going for Team Snippets this spring. From today through to next Thursday we will have four individual runners who I dare say are all winning chances and will be all single figure odds in the betting markets. 

Starting with today we have Arugamama now a 4yo mare.

Arugamama looks in fantastic order ahead of her return in the last race at Morphettville today.  She’s  drawn well in barrier one which hopefully is ideal as long as she gets a gap in the straight.  We saw what she did last prep first up and hopefully we get the same result today. Many  good judges are tipping her to win first up again and I can report the stable is very pleased with her. She is bred to excel beyond 2000m and physically she looks to have furnished now she is four to allow her to reach her staying potential.  She is a big watch in the Snippets stable this girl! Good luck to our Arugamama owners today.

On Tuesday we head to Seymour with Vancouver Rocks. She is having her third start and getting out to 1400m where she is fit and ready to win. Her first run where she started favourite after her impressive trial form was a forget run where she had no luck and was given a poor ride and her second run she had excuses and showed she was looking for the 1400m. She can win despite her wide gate so follow her. She is just a gorgeous looking horse and bred to excel up to 2000m.

On Wednesday we have our first stakes winner at Snippets back in Chilled. We have high hopes for her in the spring but as mentioned in the dialog on the McNeil Stakes she has to measure up and show us she can do it at three. I hope she can and I can tell you her trial form suggests she can. She came second to an older horse and group one horse in waiting named Benedetta who runs today at Caulfield as favourite. She is a filly that loves to win and she is just a talented girl. We’ll be claiming 3kg on Wednesday as she has 61kg and top weight paying the penalty for her two year old form but we have a stakes campaigne mapped out for her.

Then on Thursday we back up at Cranbourne with the second run of our debut winner Artistic Genius. He has always showed us plenty in trackwork and in his trials and he didn’t disappoint on debut at Cranbourne winning on debut at Cranbourne. He is tough and tenacious and he could be very good.

The following week will have Fileeta and Hoof Don’t Lie who’ll I tell you about next week and both of these horses have their fair share of ability and are knocking on the door. Waiting in the wings are two other unraced  three year olds our Toronado (name Dawnlake pending) filly and Down the Wicket in training.  I’m excited and I know our owners and looking forward to the spring.

Have a great day and enjoy your racing wherever you are watching and pencil in the Snippets runners this week.

All the best,

Andrew Augustine
SNIPPETS RACING