{"id":465433,"date":"2026-06-07T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465433\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:30:13","slug":"snitzel-stallion-wins-stakes-for-fernrigg-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465433\/","title":{"rendered":"Snitzel Stallion Wins Stakes for Fernrigg Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was only one stakes race at Randwick on Saturday and the $200,000 Listed ATC Bob Charley AO Stakes (1100m) was won by Fernrigg Farm\u2019s four year-old Snitzel stallion Wanaruah.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wanaruah had a big team of very happy connections - image Bradleyphotos.com.au\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/breednet-images-wanaruah-owners-31186.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 400px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wanaruah was entered for Magic Million as a yearling and withdrawn, then passed in at Inglis Easter with Fernrigg Farm electing to keep and race him, which has proven a great decision.<\/p>\n<p>Sent first to Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Wanaruah won his first two starts in metro races as a winter juvenile in 2024 and was Group placed the following spring as a three year-old behind horses such as Autumn Glow and Angel Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Sidelined through injury, he was transferred to Brett and Georgie Cavanough earlier this year and in three runs for his new stable has not missed a beat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wanaruah wins his first stakes race - image Bradleyphotos.com.au\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/breednet-images-wanaruah-stakes-31187.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 400px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He was second first up at the Hawkesbury standalone meeting and then won at Scone on their standalone Saturday and came to Randwick on Saturday ready to fire for Kerrin McEvoy.<\/p>\n<p>Wanaruah took a while to get to the front, but was a clear leader turning for home and stick to his guns repelling all rivals to win by three-quarters of a length \u00a0taking his overall record to four wins and three placings from nine starts with prizemoney topping $440,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wanaruah fights them all off and wins the Listed Bob Charley AO Stakes ??<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KPMcEvoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@KPMcEvoy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cavanoughracing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cavanoughracing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QxovJkKYc9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QxovJkKYc9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 7HorseRacing ?? (@7horseracing) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/7horseracing\/status\/2063127019370524943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking forward, never look back and he has done the job since he came to my place,&#8221; Brett Cavanough said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He hasn&#8217;t let me down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a good field today, from a tricky draw, Kerrin took luck out of the equation and got the job done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bred by Fernrigg Farm, Wanaruah is the best of three winners from four foasl to race from Group II winning Star Witness mare Mella Maria.<\/p>\n<p>Mella Maria has a weanling colt by Snitzel\u2019s Golden Slipper winner Shinzo and is in foal to another son of Snitzel in Wild Ruler.<\/p>\n<p>Wanaruah is the 175th stakes-winner for much missed Snitzel, who is set to be crowned Australia\u2019s champion sire by earnings again this season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was only one stakes race at Randwick on Saturday and the $200,000 Listed ATC Bob Charley AO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-465433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}