Snoopy Goes Three From Three

The Hawkes stable is filled with super expensive blue-bloods but it's progressive three year-old Snoopy that keeps winning races, landing his third successive win from just three starts at Ballarat on Thursday.

Labelled a Breednet 'One to Watch' when he won on debut at Seymour back in January, Snoopy has been take along a low profile path by Team Hawkes, but with entries in all the big Group I spring events we know where they would ultimately like to end up.

The son of Lope de Vega (IRE) won at Sandown when resuming from a spell at the start of the month and then stepped up to 1400 metres on Thursday to score a half neck win as favourite against older rivals.

A half-brother to Group II winner Thump from stakes-winning Flying Spur mare Oomph, Snoopy was a $180,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Patinack Farm draft for Kitchwin Hills and runs for Max Whitby and Neil Werrett.

Bred by Patinack Farm, he was the most expensive yearling from the first crop of Shamardal's Group I winning son Lope de Vega, who shuttled to Patinack Farm from his Irish based of Ballylinch Stud for four seasons.

Oomph was purchased for $160,000 by Kitchwin Hills at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale earlier this year and has foaled this spring producing this filly by All Too Hard at Kitchwin Hills.