The race for a berth in January’s $2 million BMW Magic Millions 2YO Classic continued today with two more impressive city winners booking their place in the field.

Snipzu treated his rivals with contempt in Brisbane, while Amorino couldn’t have been more impressive in debut with a strong on speed win in Sydney.

Leading Brisbane trainer Liam Birchley is hoping to have multiple runners in Queensland’s richest race and today his exciting filly Snipzu raced her way into contention.

“I’ve got a number of nice youngsters and hopefully she won’t be the only one I have in the field,” Birchley said.

“I’ve had a good opinion of this filly for some time and took her down to Sydney the other day and she ran well to get second in the Gimcrack.”

“She was very impressive today and as you’d expect we’re aiming her at the Magic Millions (2YO Classic).”

“We’ll give her two or three weeks break now and bring her back and work out a path to the Millions.”

“The main job with getting into the field is done and now we can work out the rest from here.”

Birchley said while the filly wasn’t as brilliant as Millions runner-up Paprika at the same stage she had “great scope to come on” prior to her major assignment in January.

Snipzu, a daughter of Snippetson, was purchased by Birchley for $80,000 from the Yarramalong Park draft at January’s 2011 Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

She’s already earned $52,000 from just two runs and looks to have an extremely bright future.

Meanwhile, Gerald Ryan unearthed a Magic Millions Classic contender when his promising colt Amorino won on debut at Randwick today.

A son of Ryan’s former outstanding galloper and Magic Millions Classic placegetter Snitzel, Amorino impressed Jim Cassidy with the ease of his win.

“It was his first chance and it was an impressive win,” Cassidy said. “You can feel some class there that’s for sure.”

“He seems like a nice 1400 metre style horse. He looks a nice prospect to develop into a handy horse.”

Ryan purchased Amorino on behalf of the Galante family for $70,000 during the fifth session of this year’s Magic Millions Gold Yearling Sale.

Ryan said he would consider sending the youngster to Melbourne for the Maribyrnong Plate describe him as a “professional little horse all the way along.”

With a $20,000 BOBS bonus he cleared $62,000 for today’s debut win – making him shape as one of the early bargain buys from the popular Queensland auction.

Amorino is from a winning Marauding half sister to former outstanding filly, AJC Oaks winner Danendri.

Danendri is the dam of two quality stakes winners (Zingam and Banc de Fortune) as well as Zona – the dam of VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume.

His third dam Copperama won a Thousand Guineas and is the grandam of Brisbane Cup winner Danestorm.

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