Snitzel Template Used On Boom Youngster
- Sunday, 29 November 2015 07:05
Gerald Ryan will try to replicate a Magic Millions lead-up campaign that almost worked for Snitzel to help deliver his first win in the race with barrier trial star Regimental Force.
As Regimental Force prepares to make a much-anticipated debut over 1000m at Randwick on Saturday, Ryan said he would space the colt's runs in an almost identical way to how he mapped out a Magic Millions program for Snitzel more than a decade ago.
"He'll run on Saturday and then all being well he will go the Gold Coast and run on Boxing Day on his way to the Magic Millions," Ryan said.
"Snitzel won the Strawberry Hill Stud Slipper at Wyong around the same date, then we went to the Tommy Smith Slipper in Queensland which it was known as at the time," Ryan said.
The Tommy Smith Slipper has been replaced by the Bruce McLachlan Stakes as a Gold Coast lead-in to the Magic Millions a fortnight later."
It means Regimental Force will miss the Magic Millions Wyong 2YO Classic, but Ryan can find an upside to giving the provincial race a wide berth.
"I've gone to the Wyong race a couple of times and it hasn't worked so we'll go the Snitzel way this time," he said.
"Plus the money he races for (at Rosehill and the Gold Coast) qualifies you for the Golden Slipper whereas the Magic Millions money doesn't."
Snitzel was sent out an odds-on favourite in the Magic Millions but was beaten for the first time as he dead-heated for third behind Bradbury's Luck.
Regimental Force lived up to his pedigree as a son of Golden Slipper winner Sepoy and the 2003 Magic Millions winner Regimental Gal with an astonishing barrier trial win at Rosehill last week.
He went to the line with barely a hint of urgency from jockey Brenton Avdulla to score by 9-1/2 lengths in the fastest of four 900m heats for two-year-olds.
"He's very good," Ryan said. "Always has been right from the word go.
"Not that I did too much with him early but I just liked the way he did it.
"He's a good mover with a good attitude."
