Winner: Zelsnitz (Snitzel-Eishin Maysville)
Race: MRC Twilight Glow Stakes LR (1400m)
Passed for: $90,000
Sale: 2009 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale
Vendor: Kitchwin Hills (As Agent)
Reserve: $100,000
Earnings: $81,790
Owner(s): Mr CE Holt
Trainer: Peter Moody (Caulfield)
Beautifully bred filly Zelsnitz sent her value soaring when she upstaged the odds on favourite Palomares to win today’s listed Twilight Glow Stakes (1400m) at Sandown.
A direct descendant of the champion mare Fanfreluche, Zelsnitz added yet more black type to one of the world’s great thoroughbred families when she led throughout in the feature fillies event.
“She’s really come along in leaps and bounds,” winning trainer Peter Moody said.
“She’s a very well bred filly – being closely related to Holy Roman Emperor and from the L’on Vite family – so it was very important to get that stakes win.”
“From the outside barrier at Flemington the other day she just had to do a little too much work to get across – but today from the good gate she was able to keep going strong.”
Zelsnitz is eligible for January’s $1 million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas – but Moody said the race was “too early” for his latest stakes winner.
“She’s still very new and very raw.”
“Bossy surprised me the other day. He got off her and said this is a young Typhoon Tracy and I said, I hope the hell you are right!”
“She’s got a lot of natural, raw talent and hopefully we can harness it and keep her going in the right direction.”
“She’ll have a break now and come back for the back end of the autumn and possibly up to Sydney – she’s owned in Sydney interests.”
A graduate of the 2009 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, where she could have been yours for just $100,000, Zelsnitz is now one of the most valuable fillies in the country.
Her dam Eishin Maysville, a winner over 1200 metres in Japan, is a daughter of the influential Secretariat mare L’on Vite.
That makes Zelsnitz’s dam a half sister to former champion racehorse and exciting young Coolmore Stud stallion Holy Roman Emperor as well as his stakes winning siblings Milanova, Big Viking and Heart of Oak.
Zelsnitz’s third dam Fanfreluche was one of the best fillies to ever race in Canada – being that country’s champion racehorse in 1970.
And in breeding barn she has been on the most influential mares in the world. Her, her daughters and grandaughters having produced Group One winners including La Voyageuse, L’enjoleur, Medaille D’or, Aube Indienne, Flying Spur, Encosta de Lago, Medici, Majestic Roi
It is also the same family as Australian based stakes stars French Braids, Krupt, Musidora and Ballybleue.
