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Inglis Stakes Treble at Warwick Farm

16th Mar 2013

GLAMOUR filly Snitzerland is one step away from a breakthrough Group 1 success, while improving two-year-old All The Talk booked himself a start in the Golden Slipper as Inglis graduates landed a stakes treble at Warwick Farm today.

SNITZERLAND ($125,000 2011 Premier, 3f Snitzel-Monte Rosa) eye-balled grand sprinter Hay List in the Group 2 Challenge Stakes and then left her rivals standing to post a new Warwick Farm 1000m track record.

Trainer Gerald Ryan immediately signalled plans to run in the Group 1 Galaxy in two weeks time and his ambitions are backed up by the assessment of champion jockey Corey Brown, who was glowing in his praise of the filly.

“I’ve always thought Exceed And Excel is the best horse I’ve ridden but this filly is fast closing in,” Brown said. “She is so fast and to sit on a hot speed like that and sprint away from them is something special.”

Snitzerland, runner-up in last year’s Golden Slipper, was sold by Bellerive Stud and now boasts earnings approaching $1.5million.

Gary Portelli had hoped to be taking home a Group 1 win at the meeting with Rebel Dane, but though left disappointed by that race, still went home with a new Group 3 winner.

ALL THE TALK ($40,000 2012 Classic, 2c Stratum-Weekend Gossip) relished getting onto firmer ground and raced away with the Group 3 Skyline Stakes.

The win assured the Widden Stud graduate a place in next month’s Golden Slipper.

"I’m not saying he’s a good thing in the Slipper but they’ll know he’s in there,” Portelli said.

"I’m so happy for the owners and the team at Elite Thoroughbreds."

In between those wins, rapidly improving mare ARINOSA ($32,500 2009 Premier, 5m Dash For Cash-Amoroso) returned in the same form she left off last spring, when rounding up her rivals to win the Listed Wenona Girl.

The win has forced trainer Chris Waller to raise the bar for the Swettenham Stud sold mare, naming the Group 2 Emancipation Stakes as a potential target during the carnival.