It was a
battle of the giants in a 1100 metres maiden at Hawkesbury on Thursday when
Fairway Thoroughbreds $650,000 I Am Invincible filly Sangria bettered
Spendthrift Farms $800,000 Written Tycoon colt Dirty Work by three and a half
lengths.
Dirty Work was sent off an odds-on favourite following a third behind Bivouac in the Group III Vain Stakes at Caulfield but there was no catching Peter and Paul Snowden's problem child Sangria who is building up quite a resume with stewards in her three start career.
At her most
recent start she copped a suspension for her racing manners when she tailed off
last when running to the outside fence in a 900 metre maiden at Newcastle and
that came a fortnight after she was scratched when playing up in the barriers
and needed a veterinary
clearance to be permitted to race or barrier trial again.
She won a barrier trial at Canterbury on September 19 but wary punters let her go off at 9/2 under Tommy Berry.
After racing on the speed Sangria took control before turning for home and was under little more than a hand ride in the last 100 metres but still setting a new mark for the 1100 metres at 1:01.17.
Dirty Work had little luck in the run being caught three-wide but he was easily held although he had a one and three-quarter length margin over the third placed Snitzel gelding Haunting Spirit.
Purchased by James Harron Bloodstock for $650,000 out of the Newgate Farm draft at the 2018 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Sangria is a result of a massive spend by Newgate at the 2014 Teeley Asset dispersal.
Newgate outlaid $1,500,000 for Sangria's stakes-placed dam Quench The Thirst and also purchased her sister Precious Lorraine for $1,500,000 and half-sisters Your Lifestyle (Hussonet) for $1.200,000, Café Scientific (More Than Ready) for $650,000 and Princess Narine (Red Ransom) for $600,000.
They are all daughters of Redoute's Choice's stakes-placed sister Monsoon Wedding whose half-sister Ten Carat Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar) also went the way of Newgate for $750,000.
Now in the ownership of Go Bloodstock, Quench The Thirst has a 2yo Sebring colt named Ahso, a yearling filly by Snitzel and is due to foal to Merchant Navy.
