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First Win for Record Priced Snippetson

4th May 2011

Breednet - Tara Madgwick - Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Snippetson featured with a quinella in the juvenile maiden at Kembla on Tuesday, the winner a full brother-in-blood to brilliant Group I winner Absolut Glam.

Improving on a debut second at Canterbury, the Gai Waterhouse trained Nobby Snip powered clear as a raging hot favourite to win the 1200 metre maiden by more than two lengths over another Snippetson in the Rick Worthington trained That's How.

A $185,000 purchase from the Widden Stud draft at the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Nobby Snip is the fifth winner for imported mare Pine Away (USA), whose best progeny to date is Group I Tatts Winter Stakes winner Absolut Glam, a daughter of fertility troubled sire Snowland, a full brother to Nobby Snip's sire Snippetson.

Nobby Snip (pictured as a yearling) was the most expensive yearling by Snippetson sold in 2010 and is in fact his most expensive yearling full stop.

Pine Away has a weanling colt by Sebring and was covered by Stratum last spring.

Snippetson is the sire of five stakes horses led by Group II winner Fast Clip and will stand this spring at Widden Stud at a fee of $7,700.