Roadhog has a well-bred newcomer as an ally at Carrington Park in the NSW Southern Highlands this year.

Roadhog (Shovhog) was raced by a syndicate that included Dato Tan Chin Nam and Bart Cummings and so was Salade who has just retired to the Robertson-based stud.

Salade (3c Snitzel – Just As Beautiful by Beautiful Crown) easily won the G2 Pago Pago Stakes at his first start in March 2011 and Bart threw him straight into the G1 Golden Slipper seven days later.

With Luke Nolan aboard, Salade was checked three times and finished midfield although only five lengths off Sepoy.  He sustained a suspensory ligament injury which restricted his racing days to just a few more starts.

“He’s a great type,” Carrington Park owner Peter Beauman said.  “He was trained by the master and will sire powerful, well-built sprinting stock.”

Snitzel is getting a cracker in every crop for Redoute’s Choice and Arrowfield Stud.  He started with Chance By and graduated up the grades with Hot Snitzel before siring a Group 1 first with Sizzling in the T J Smith Stakes on June 9.

Sizzling is being set for the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, November 3.  Plotting his downfall on the opening day of the cup carnival will be Snitzel specialist Gerald Ryan.

Ryan trains Golden Slipper runner-up Snitzerland and she returned from the paddock last week.  The filly was a dominant winner down the Flemington straight-six in March prior to stretching Pierro at Rosehill.  In hindsight, it was a super effort in view of what happened at Randwick.

It’s a precocious speed source and Salade was good enough to win a Group 2 on debut.  His dam Just As Beautiful was G3 placed in a Black Opal at Canberra and she goes back to G1 winning filly Princess Talaria (Dignitas) and her older brother Haulpak who was a G1 champion sire in Western Australia.

Salade is the first son of Snitzel to go to stud.  Carrington Park runs adjacent to the Kangaroo River offering a constant water source all year round, along with annual rainfall of 40-50 inches.

Peter Beauman can be contacted on 0412 458 333