The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Sweet Redemption provided her sire Snitzel with his 46th stakes winner when she held on for a game win in the G3 Festival Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.
Sweet Redemption had finished second in her two previous starts in the G3 Summoned Stakes (1500m) at Sandown on 12 November and the $100,000 Goulburn Cup (1600m) on November 26 won by Circular.
The four-year-old mare beat the Victorian raider Hazzabeel, a son of Zabeel, by a short neck with her co-trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott now eyeing off a trip to the Gold Coast Magic Millions meeting in January for the mare.A $120,000 Gold Coast yearling purchase in 2014 by Round Table Racing, Sweet Redemption has won over $288,000 from her five wins in 18 starts."She is a Magic Millions horse so the fillies and mares race at the Gold Coast is where she'll head," Waterhouse said.
Sweet Redemption (Snitzel x Redeeming Lass by Red Ransom) was bred by Bell View Park Stud and is the only winner from two foals to race out of her unraced dam Redeeming Lass.Her second dam is the G1 Flight Stakes winner Danglissa (Danzero), the dam of five winners and a daughter of Vreeland (Lord Seymour).
Redeeming Lass has an unnamed two-year-old colt by Denman who was sold for only $12,000 as a yearling. She foaled a filly by Wandjina in November.Snitzel’s sire Redoute’s Choice was also prominent at Rosehill, siring a double with Pipeline and Snitzel’s three-quarter blood brother Redoubtable Heart.
The Gerald Ryan-trained Pipeline earned himself a tilt at the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas at the Gold Coast on January after he won first up from a spell at Rosehil on Saturday.The Redoute’s Choice 3YO has now won two of his four career starts and Ryan believes he has returned this preparation a much better colt.
Pipeline was purchased for $575,000 from the 2015 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale by Stallion Racing and Jadesky Racing from the draft of his breeder Mill Park Stud.