News - BRAVE SMASH (JPN)
The first race on a star studded Flemington program on Saturday was not a stakes race, but the winner certainly has stakes potential with exciting Brave Smash (Jpn) gelding Jett Smash resuming from a spell to score a dominant win.
Rain showers did not dampen spirits at the annual Yarraman Park stallion parade last Friday, but as so often happens in overcast weather the light can produce exceptional images so do take a moment to enjoy seeing champion sire I Am Invincible in all his glory.
It was a good 24 hours for Brave Smash (Jpn) with a new winner at the last Hong Kong meeting of the season at Happy Valley last night and a debut two year-old winner in WA.
Three hot favourites saluted at Doomben on Wednesday for leading trainers Toby Edmonds, Tony Gollan and David Vandyke and all three were by Yarraman Park based sires.
Yarraman Park based Brave Smash (Jpn) is a promising young sire, whose best bred progeny are yet to race, but he’s still ticking along nicely with what he has and posted a debut juvenile winner on Tuesday for the Tony and Calvin McEvoy stable.
Here is the full list of 21 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Brave Smash (Jpn) gelding Brave Monarch is a rising star 3YO in Queensland and took another giant leap forward when handling a heavy track to win the $350,000 Group II BRC Queensland Guineas (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Brave Smash (Jpn) 3YO gelding Brave Monarch showed he can be a force to be reckoned with at the upcoming Brisbane Winter Carnival when scoring a dominant win in the $160,000 Listed BRC Daybreak Lover (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Progressive three year-old Jett Smash is building a tidy record and the Danny O’Brien trained son of Brave Smash (Jpn) took his hot form into metro company at Sandown on Wednesday.
Home to three G1-producing sires, Yarraman Park Stud has announced its 2026 fees and is led once again by I Am Invincible and complemented by his emerging sire son Hellbent and Brave Smash (Jpn), whose exciting next chapter is just beginning.
The Yarraman Park sires have been flying high this season with father and son duo I Am Invincible and Hellbent accounting for 11 Aussie stakes-winners between them since August 1 and for Brave Smash (Jpn) things are about to get interesting!
The $3million Magic Millions Sunlight slot race at the Gold Coast on Saturday will be watched very closely by the team at Yarraman Park with their homebred I Am Invincible filly Sylph seeking to break her maiden in the lucrative feature, while Hellbent is the sire of one of her archrivals Savvy Hallie.
Yarraman Park’s Brave Smash (Jpn) has been on a winning roll since the start of this month and racked up his fifth winner for October when talented colt Smashing Lad scored an impressive maiden win at Warrnambool on Thursday.
It’s been a few days of ups and downs for Yarraman Park’s young stallion Brave Smash (Jpn), whose glamour G1 mare Kimochi was ruled out of the Group I BRC Stradbroke due to a tendon injury, but on the flip side he produced an exciting new stakes-winner at Eagle Farm on Saturday in Brave Design.
Yarraman Park’s three-strong roster - all proven Group 1-producing sires - continues to go from strength to strength and is once again led by the breed-shaping I Am Invincible complemented by his sire-son Hellbent, and rising stallion Brave Smash.
Brave Smash (Jpn) has a very nice horse in Hong Kong in the shape of four year-old gelding Divano, who scored his fifth win on Sunday when stepping up to Class 1 company for the first time.
Yarraman Park’s young sire Brave Smash (Jpn) has had a good weekend with a couple of smart juveniles stepping out on debut in Melbourne and in Queensland, while his flagship runner Kimochi is getting ready for her autumn campaign with a trial appearance scheduled for this week.
The Sha Tin meeting on Sunday produced some great results for the Yarraman sires with Brave Smash (Jpn) posting a winning double and Hellbent siring a promising new three year-old winner.
A double for Brave Smash, including a new winner, also new winners for Hellbent and Kermadec, and three yearling catalogue updates amongst seven Australasian bred winners at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Champion jockey James McDonald had a massive day at Sha Tin on Sunday riding Romantic Warrior (IRE) and Voyage Bubble to victory in Group I races, but he started the day with an earlier success aboard talented Brave Smash (Jpn) gelding Divano.