Having not raced since July 2025, 4yo Brutal (NZ) gelding Glorious Moments continued where he left off, recoding his third win from just five starts with a promising return to the track on Wednesday at Warwick Farm.
Clearly with above average ability, Glorious Moments finished behind Fully Lit and King Of Roseau on debut at 2 before contesting the G3 Pago Pago Stakes behind Dublin Down.
Winning his next two starts before an injury enforced break, the gelding looks capable of further stepping up in class as he progresses into his campaign.
Although asked to carry 61.5kgs, the Jim and Greg Lee trained gelding had the services of James McDonald with the 4yo jumping away the short-priced favourite in the field of seven.
With the Nathan Doyle trained Formal going forward along the rail to sit in second position behind the 80/1 race outsider Lady Shenanigans, McDonald was content to race wide aboard the favourite with just two behind him in the run.
Madrina was one of the first to make a move to challenge Formal, who had taken the lead, with McDonald still working home, keeping the well-fancied Confidentiality in a pocket.
While it took Glorious Moments some time to chase down the leading duo, it was clear form McDonald’s post-race interview that the gelding needs further to show his best and it was pure class that got him home over the 1100m, with a quarter of a length seprating the first three over the line.
"I think he’s the best horse we’ve had since Hayai, and we’ve had some good horses. I think he could win a Doncaster,” stated co-trainer Greg Lee before Glorious Moments’ win on Wednesday.
Glorious Moments was an $85,000 Inglis Classic purchase from Kirks Bridge Farm for Shinkansen Bloodstock and is a half-brother to the G2-winning, multiple G1 placed Stretan Angel (Harry Angel) who sells at the upcoming Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale via the Yarraman draft as Lot 465 as well as this season’s G2 Silver Slipper winner Stretan Ruler (Wild Ruler).
He is one of four winners from five to race out of Sretan, a placed half-sister by Bernardini (USA) to the G2 placed Alegria (the dam of G2 winner Alegron) from G3 winner Pure Joy.
Sretan’s current yearling is a colt by Stretan Angel’s sire Harry Angel (IRE) who sold at this year’s Inglis Classic yearling sale for $540,000 to Equine Growth Fund, Blueblood Thoroughbreds and SP Bloodstock.
The mare foaled a filly by the very same sire in the spring before being one of 158 mares covered by Coolmore’s multiple G1-winning son of Justify (USA) in City Of Troy (USA).
Brutal is the sire of six stakes performers highlighted the G1-winning 2yo colt Nepotism who will stand at Newgate Farm at a fee of $16,500 (inc. GST).
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