News - BRAVE SMASH (JPN)
Aquis have three first season sires with their progeny running this season and all of them had winners over the weekend with Performer and Santos siring their very first winners while Brave Smash (Jpn) clearly has an above average juvenile in Perth with Brave Halo going two for two at Ascot.
Aquis Farm’s brilliant Japanese bred multiple Group I winning sprinter Brave Smash (Jpn) became the first of the new season sires to post a winner when his first runner Brave Halo returned a winner at Ascot in Perth on Saturday.
There is no denying the impact Japanese bloodlines have made in Australia and the next chapter of their success may well be written by Aquis Farm’s dual Group I winning sprinter Brave Smash (Jpn), whose first crop of two year-olds are inspiring confidence.
The Magic Millions National Weanling Sale soared to new heights this year with a buoyant market so strong it was likened to an elite yearling sale and for this exciting young sire it may well prove to be an eye-opening taste of what is to come.
The use of stallions in their second season has led to the conception of some outstanding racetrack performers including Champion 2YO’s, Champion 3YO’s, Champion Stayers, Champion Sprinters and Champion Sires of the future.
The Aquis team held three successive days of stallion parades at our Hunter Valley property.
Following the announcement of Acclamation’s Group 1 Prix de la Foret winner Aclaim (GB)joining Aquis Farm for 2019, the Fung family are extremely proud to highlight another two outstanding stallions who will form part of one of Australia’s most exciting stallion rosters for the upcoming breeding season.
I Am Invincible has three runners set to represent him in the Group One Al Quoz Sprint in Dubai on Saturday at the rich Dubai World Cup meeting.
Aquis Farm has secured recent Group 1 $1 Million Manikato Stakes (1200m) winner Brave Smash to join its ever-growing stallion roster.
Japanese-bred, Australian-owned and trained Brave Smash (JPN) ran down the US-bred, Irish-trained Spirit Of Valour (USA) and Godolphin’s local hope Kementari in a thrilling renewal of the $1 million Group 1 Ladbrokes Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
Saturday’s $500,000 Group 1 Italktravel Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield proved a triumph for Australian Bloodstock with their Japanese-bred pair Brave Smash (JPN) and Tosen Stardom (JPN) fighting out the finish.
The Everest third placegetter Brave Smash is unlikely to be seen again in the spring.
The Australian Turf Club and Australian Bloodstock have booked a UK-based jockey to make his Randwick debut aboard Brave Smash in Saturday week’s $10 million The Everest (1200m).
There's no doubt the ATC’s brave decision for The Everest is going to take some Darren Weir magic to deliver the right result and I’m getting back onto the jump outs situation in Victoria, which seriously needs to change.
The build-up to The Everest continues to be the talk of the track in Sydney and again that was the case at Rosehill on Saturday with just 21 days until the race is run.
Brave Smash had his Everest ambitions dented when beaten by Bons Away in Saturday’s Listed Testa Rossa Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.
Plenty of supposed good things across the country on Saturday but the Racenet analysts have put their heads together to give punters another tool to help them turn a profit with the Racenet lays of the day.
Blinkers will probably go on Brave Smash in The Everest and the Japanese import is likely to have his final lead-up run in Saturday’s Listed Testa Rossa Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.
The Australian Turf Club has announced which horse it has chosen to fill its place in the Everest next month.
I didn’t even bet in the race so I’m speaking from a totally neutral corner when I shake my head at the decision to uphold the last race protest at Rosehill and I’m also putting a line through a few of The Everest aspirants as having little or no hope in this week’s edition of The Armchair Punter.