Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Snapper Sinclair

Snapper Sinclair
City Zip–True Addiction, by Yes It’s True
Bred in Kentucky by K & G Stables ($180,000 purchase by Jeffrey Bloom at OBS April 2-year-old sale)

City Zip and Yes It’s True scored their biggest victories in sprints but have been fairly versatile as stallions in terms of progeny route performance. The two combine as the sire and broodmare sire of Louisiana Derby entrant Snapper Sinclair, hoping to tap into that versatility to overcome a seemingly speed-oriented page. A stakes winner at seven furlongs on turf as a juvenile, the colt has placed in multiple graded stakes routing on dirt, most recently finishing second by a nose in the Risen Star.

City Zip finished in a dead heat for the victory in the Hopeful Stakes as a juvenile, with the seven furlongs of that event his longest winning distance. He only missed the board once in 16 starts at seven furlongs or shorter, with eight career stakes victories. He was Grade 1-placed going 1 1/16 miles and Grade 2-placed at a mile on turf.

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City Zip, a half-brother to Horse of the Year and successful stallion Ghostzapper, proved extremely versatile as a sire, with progeny success on a variety of surfaces and distances. Eclipse Award champion turf female Dayatthespa sealed her title in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at 1 1/4 miles, and Canadian Horse of the Year Catch a Glimpse won the Belmont Oaks at the same classic distance. City Zip sired a pair of Eclipse champion sprinters in Work All Week and Finest City; the latter was Grade 1-placed routing. City Zip’s other standouts include last year’s Pacific Classic winner, Collected.

True Addiction, Grade 2-placed as a juvenile, also points toward speed. She never won beyond seven furlongs, and only one of her four winners has succeeded around two turns.

Yes It’s True posted his major victory in the Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash and, in that mold, sired champion female sprinter La Verdad. But as a broodmare sire, he is represented by the longer-winded older females Terra Promessa and Valadorna as well as a Kentucky Oaks hopeful in multiple stakes winner Midnight Disguise.

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