Peter Snowden knew Anise was showing the potential to be a top-class juvenile and after watching her race to a debut win he's now even more convinced.The well-bred filly gave away race experience to odds-on favourite Saramenha at Rosehill but was too good for the Gerald Ryan-trained filly, taking out Saturday's Asbestos Disease Foundation Of Australia Handicap (1100m) by 1-3/4 lengths.It was the same margin back to the Clarry Conners-trained Offer in third.Snowden wasn't hiding his delight and s
Peter Snowden knew Anise was showing the potential to be a top-class juvenile and after watching her race to a debut win he's now even more convinced.
The well-bred filly gave away race experience to odds-on favourite Saramenha at Rosehill but was too good for the Gerald Ryan-trained filly, taking out Saturday's Asbestos Disease Foundation Of Australia Handicap (1100m) by 1-3/4 lengths.
It was the same margin back to the Clarry Conners-trained Offer in third.
Snowden wasn't hiding his delight and said the daughter of General Nediym would now be spelled as he believes she has a role to play heading towards next year's $3.5 million Golden Slipper.
"She was coming in here off a very soft trial and it was always a plan just to give her one run and then give her a break because whatever she did now I'm very confident she'll improve on next time through," Snowden said.
"I'm still going to stick to that plan, she'll go out now because I think she's a real quality filly.
"She showed a lot of good things there today. She jumped well, relaxed really well and quickened."
A $600,000 yearling purchase, Anise is out of Pimpinella who is a three-quarter sister to dual Hong Kong Horse of the Year Fairy King Prawn.
Snowden was confident of a forward showing from Anise ($16) but admitted he thought the filly might have been giving away too much race experience to the $1.30 favourite Saramenha who had impressed with two easy wins at the same track in recent weeks.
However when Anise controlled the race from the front and had her ears pricked on the home turn, Snowden knew it was going to take a pretty good horse to run her down.
Ryan offered no excuses for Saramenha who sat just off Anise before moving up to challenge in the straight.
Saramenha, who carried 4.5kg more than the winner, almost drew level with about 250m to run but when Kerrin McEvoy asked Anise to go she drew away from the favourite.
"She wasn't good enough, no excuses," Ryan said.
McEvoy, stable rider for Darley, was also glowing in his praise of the winner and said it was certainly worth aiming her at the Golden Slipper in April.
"She's one of the nicer two-year-olds I've ridden for a while," McEvoy said.