Bay 1996 16.1hh Snippets- No Finer by Kaoru Star
2010 fee $40,000 +gst

Sire of 2009-10 ‘NZ Filly Of The Year’ Katie Lee, winner of $1,065,925, the only filly to win the three-year-olds’ classic double, Group One NZ One Thousand Guineas and Group One Two Thousand Guineas, in their 36 year history.

Also this season Waikato, Group One winner of the Kranji Mile, Champion Older Sprinter and Champion Older Miler of Singapore, 14 wins and $1.6 million. Plus Group Two winner Goldshatz, Group Three winners Icepin and Tootsie.

Also achieved at the elite level with four times Group One star El Segundo (A$3,964,375 including W S Cox Plate), Kelt Capital Stakes and New Zealand Oaks winner Legs ($895,275), A$1 million Caulfield Guineas winner Econsul, Singapore Derby winner Lim’s Prestige and Levin Classic winner Porotene Gem.

Top four finisher on the New Zealand Sires’ List for the past five seasons including second in 2009-10. Leading sire of individual winners. Leading Sire in Singapore 2009-10. Only O’Reilly and Zabeel, amongst New Zealand based sires, have more progeny earnings in the southern hemisphere/South East Asia combined.

Sire of 33 stakes winners. Average earnings per starter over seven crops in Australasia,
$55,700. His largest crops have yet to reach maturity.

A banner year at the sales, 71 selling up to $650,000 at an average $141,000. 16 yearlings sold for in excess of $200,000.

Highest earner by, and leading sire son of, influential Snippets. Free of Danehill/Danzig.