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Snuggle, dam of Colonial Affair, raced for Hickory Tree and was placed at 2, in three starts. She was retired in the early part of her 3-year-old season in 1988 and bred to Hickory Tree homebred champion Devil's Bag. Snuggle was consigned by Walnut Green, agent, to the 1988 Keeneland November breeding stock sale, where she was purchased by Hermen Greenberg for $ 190,000. Greenberg,who owns Rutledge Farm near Middleburg, Va., with his wife, Monica, was advised in the purchase by his former manager, Larry Deaton.

Deaton was partial to Snuggle because she carried the Nijinsky II/Raise a Native cross, and he thought breeding the mare to Pleasant Colony would take advantage of the Pleasant Colony/Nijinsky II cross.

Snuggle was bred in 1999 to Pleasant Colony and the resulting foal was Colonial Affair. The Greenbergs consigned Colonial Affair to the 1991 Saratoga yearling sale, where Donald Little,president of Centennial Farms, purchased the colt for $ 100,000.

(David Schmitz, "The Blood Horse" 1993)