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No two-year-old will attract more attention this season than the Snitzel filly Courcheval, all thanks to her illustrious sister WInx.
A daughter of the Al Akbar mare Vegas Showgirl, Courchevel is in training with Ciaron Maher and David Eustace at Caulfield and will race for her breeder John Camilleri’s Fairway Thoroughbreds.
Camilleri also bred Winx, by Street Cry, and it’s history that he sold her as a yearling at the Magic Millions Gold Coast sale for $230,000 in 2013.WInx is one of seven foals produced to date by Vegas Showgirl, who is currently in Japan after being covered by champion stallion Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) to southern hemisphere time.
She is also the dam of the G3 winner El Divino (Snitzel), who died as a 3YO, and his unraced brother Boulder City who is standing his first season at stud at Riverbank Farm in Victoria.A half-sister to the G3-placed Black Magic Maggie (Westminster) from the two-time winner Vegas Magic (Voodoo Rhythm), Vegas Showgirl has since produced Courcheval and a yearling filly by Exceed And Excel also retained by Camilleri.
She missed to Exceed And Excel last year, which prompted Camilleri to send her to Japan for the valuable mating with Deep Impact.Fittingly Deep Impact sired two new Group winners on Saturday in France and Japan, taking his tally of stakes winners to 122.
Winx’s 29th consecutive win and the 22nd of her career at Group One level in last Saturday’s WS Cox Plate at Moonee Valley pushed the mare’s earnings to over $22.934 million, second only to US champion Arrogate ($24.615 million) as the world’s greatest money earner.