Celts blows them away in Birthday Card

A winner at Listed level during her three-year-old season, Lonhro mare Celts produced a good turn of foot to come from behind the leading-duo at Rosehill to take the G3 Birthday Card Stakes over 1200m in a photo finish on March 31.

Trained by Peter Snowden and racing in the colours of Sheikh Mohammed, Celts held off the late charge of Next The Universe, with a short neck margin to Domesday mare Divorces and Canny Lad mare Graceful Anna finishing fourth.

Bred by Woodlands Stud, Celts is out of the Canny Lad mare Dinna Fash, a half-sister to G3 winner Appoint. Canny Lad as a broodmare sire is enjoying a stellar period not only providing the winner of the G1 Rosehill Guineas on the same card, but the winner of the G1 Coolmore Classic the week prior. Celts has a yearling colt by Dubawi and a weanling filly full-sister to Celts.

The sire of 32 Stakes winners highlighted by G1 winners Benfica, Denman and Beaded, Lonhro will head into the $3.5million G1 Golden Slipper in a week’s time with the unbeaten three-time Stakes-winning colt Pierro.

With 27 yearlings catalogued for the forthcoming Inglis Easter yearling sale, a preview can be read by clicking here.