News - BRUTAL (NZ)
The half-brother to Group II winners Stretan Angel and Stretan Ruler, lightly raced four year-old Brutal gelding Glorious Moments is a winter horse with spring aspirations and confirmed his potential with a tenacious win at Randwick on Saturday.
If your goal this spring is to choose a stallion that can breed you a nice winner with upside it might not be as expensive as you think.
The $160,000 Listed BRC Helen Coughlan Stakes (1200m) produced a blow out result when rank outsider Savagery Vibe saluted to give her sire Brutal his fifth stakes-winner.
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.
Brutal has had a hot run this week with four winners in the past four days and put the icing on the cake on Friday with a winning double at the first day of the big Scone two day meeting.
The $100,000 super maidens have been a great innovation by Racing NSW and at Randwick on Wednesday Brutal 3YO Adenauer claimed the prize and his co-trainer Michael Hawkes believes better wins are in store.
Exciting gelding Sentimental Legend gave Newgate Farm stallion Brutal (O'Reilly) his first Classic winner when he produced a dominant staying performance to emerge as a comfortable winner of the $400,000 G2 WATC Derby(2400m) at Ascot.
Night Agent is the name of a pretty good TV show on Netflix and also a promising racehorse with the three year-old gelding by Brutal scoring his first metro victory at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.
In 2019, it was three year-old colt Brutal that emerged victorious from the Group I ATC Doncaster Mile and he featured at the rain delayed Ascot meeting on Wednesday when his talented three year-old gelding Sentimental Legend won the $125,000 Listed WATC Melvista Stakes (2200m).
The Ron Quinton trained Brutal gelding Bryant has chased home some smart horses in his first three starts won by The Playwright, Miss Freelove and Raging Force, so at Warwick Farm on Australia Day he always looked well placed.
Second in the Group I ATC Flight Stakes last season and fourth in both the Group I VRC Oaks and ATC Spring Champion Stakes, four year-old Brutal mare Harlem Queen has always promised to win a stakes race and got the job done in the Listed Ladies Day Cup (1500m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday.
Team Hawkes were the guiding force behind the racing career of Group I ATC Doncaster Mile winner Brutal and have also prepared his first Group I winner as a sire in Nepotism and they unleashed a debut winner by him at Geelong on Friday.
The half-brother to Group II winner Stretan Angel, lightly raced three year-old Brutal gelding Glorious Moments was in a class of his own at Randwick on Saturday.
Fresh from siring a smart metro winner at Sandown on Wednesday in Brutalina, Brutal was in the frame at Scone on Friday where Brett Cavanough unleashed a promising two year-old debut winner in Bird Whistle.
There were some interesting maiden winners at Canterbury on Wednesday and they included the half-brother to Group II winner Stretan Angel who continued the current winning run for his young sire Brutal.
With Hong Kong races on Saturday this week and so much going on in Brisbane it was easy to miss the action at Sha Tin with a winning double for young sire Brutal worth noting as it featured a two year-old that has now had two starts for two wins and broke 56 seconds for 1000m!
Promising young sire Brutal has had a flurry of winners since the start of May and added a new juvenile winner to the tally at Ipswich on Wednesday when the Kelly Schweida trained colt Brutal Glory saluted.
Group I ATC Champagne Stakes winner Nepotism is not the only talented two year-old winner by Brutal this season that was bred and sold by Gilgai Farm.
From a clear last at the top of the straight to what seemed an unlikely first at the winning post, exciting Brutal colt Nepotism produced a scintillating performance to win the $1million Group I ATC Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.
With his oldest progeny just three year-olds, Newgate Farm’s Doncaster Mile winning sire Brutal has been ticking along nicely, but it’s a couple of two year-olds from his second crop that have him in the news on Sunday with a debut winner at Sha Tin and a super talented colt that is now a clear favourite for next week’s $1million Group I ATC Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.