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<\/p>\nThe Inglis Millennium winner\u00a0Fireball (Snitzel)\u00a0cemented himself as a future stallion with a tenacious victory in today\u2019s G1 Champagne Stakes at Randwick.<\/p>\n
Fireball is arguably the most versatile juvenile of his crop \u2013 he won a pre-Christmas race over 1100m, won the $2m Inglis Millennium in February and has contested all three legs of the 2YO Triple Crown, culminating with today\u2019s Champagne victory over 1600m.<\/p>\n
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The James Harron Bloodstock Colt Partnership teamed up with Tony Fung Colts to purchase the Chris Waller-trained Fireball for $460,000 at last year\u2019s Easter Yearling Sale, from the Yarraman Park Stud draft.<\/p>\n
Bred by Michael O\u2019Keeffe, Fireball (pictured) has now won three of his six career starts and earned $2,030,000 in prizemoney.<\/p>\n
Harron described today\u2019s victory as \u201creally special\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe dug so deep there at the end, I\u2019m really proud of the horse,\u2019\u2019 Harron said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s such a versatile horse and in today\u2019s landscape, I think that\u2019s what people want as there\u2019s so many races for these horses and to win from 1100m to a mile at two, it just opens up so many possibilities going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was always a gorgeous colt at the Easter Sale, a lovely big scopey son of Snitzel, he\u2019s a horse we just had to have.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was our first year teaming up with TFI and to get a G1 winner in that first year of the partnership is super special, it means an awful lot, we\u2019re thrilled to get the win today.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously Snitzel unfortunately is not with us anymore but he\u2019s left an incredible mark in the industry and continues to do so every single week.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have a son like him waiting in the wings is exactly what we\u2019re trying to do, we\u2019re targeting sons of Snitzel to be in this position and it\u2019s nice when a plan comes off because it\u2019s a hard game to make plans come off.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
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Winning trainer Waller added: \u201cFull credit to the horse because he’s been able to deal with [a long preparation]. As I said to the owners before the race, he’s coping so well, you wouldn’t know he’s deep into a prep, each run has had so much merit and not a lot of luck, so he deserved that today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fireball becomes the 119th G1-winning Inglis graduate since 2018.<\/p>\n
He is also the third Australian 2YO G1-winning colt to be produced from Inglis sales over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n