News - BRUTAL (NZ)
Well related Brutal colt Nepotism turned heads when charging to the line for a close third on debut to Tentyris in the Group II ATC Todman Stakes last month and he confirmed that potential when defying a betting drift to win the $250,000 Group III ATC Baillieu Stakes (1400m) at Rosehill on Tuesday.
The three year-old maiden at Newcastle on Tuesday over 1200m had a short priced favourite and the daughter of Brutal lived up to expectation when producing a brilliant finish to win running away.
At this time of year promising debut winners are gold for second season sires looking for traction in a competitive stallion market and Brutal got just such a horse on Sunday when his three year-old filly Savagery Vibe cantered in at Bendigo.
Winner of the Group I ATC Doncaster Handicap (1600m), Brutal was at his best as a three year-old and the promising sire son of O’Reilly put his first winner on the bboard for a new season when the Lindsay Park trained gelding Four Ace scored at Geelong on Friday.
Down to the business end of the season, and Saturday's Group III Sportsbet South Australian Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville provides Brutal with three chances of ending a successful first season and joining Pierata and Exceedance with two stakes-winners.
The Lindsay Park Racing team had high hopes coming into the $175,000 Listed VRC Taj Rossi Series Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday with two promising fillies engaged in Jenni’s Meadow and Sneaky Sunrise and they duly came away with the quinella.
Promising 2-year-old Four Ace resumed from a nineteen week spell to break his maiden against his elders over 1400m at Cranbourne on Sunday and credit first-season sire Brutal with his ninth winner.
The Chris Waller stable produced another new metro juvenile winner on Wednesday with Tassort filly Good Sort opening her account at Canterbury, while Tassort’s Newgate barn mate Brutal chimed in with a winner of his own with a debut victory at Balaklava for Big Brute.
Amongst the leading first-crop stallions, the Group 1 Doncaster Mile winner Brutal seems the most underappreciated.
Newgate Farm's Brutal put his name in the mix for the number of individual winners for a first-season sire when Heinous opened her winning account with a dominant performance in the Sportsbet Nobody Does It Easier Hcp (1000m) at Sandown-Hillside on Saturday.
A $50,000 juvenile event over 1400m at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday drew a very competitive big field of 14 and the dominant winner was a son of Doncaster winner Brutal.
The $200,000 Wellington Boot (1100m) on Sunday in the Central West of NSW attracted a big field of 14 runners with Brutal filly Fingers Hunter doing best in a driving finishing to snatch victory.
A dead heat in a competitive juvenile maiden at Pakenham on Thursday evening produced a fourth winner for Newgate Farm’s Brutal, but Barbaric Lad had to share the spoils as he hit the line at the exact same time as Brave Smash (Jpn) filly She Smashes.
There were a number of first season sires with irons in the fire for the juvenile event at Canterbury on Friday night and it was Newgate Farm’s Brutal that got the winner with his talented filly Totoka diving through late between runners to snatch an eye-catching win.
A Group I winning miler by champion New Zealand sire O’Reilly, Newgate Farm’s Brutal is on the board with his second winner after talented gelding Lead Me On was too strong in the $500,000 Magic Millions Debut (1000m) for unraced colts and geldings.
Newgate Farm's Group 1 ATC Doncaster Handicap winner Brutal is off the mark with Jenni's Meadow making an exciting career debut in Saturday's Young Members Cocktail Party 2 February Hcp (1200m) at Moonee Valley.
With two year-old races in Sydney, Brisbane and New Zealand this Saturday we can expect to see the progeny of seven first season sires in action, so who are they?
When Shamus Award gets a good horse it tends to be seriously good with the Joe Pride trained gelding Brutality becoming his sixth individual million dollar earner when lugging 62kg to victory at Randwick on Saturday.
Calibre Racing Group had a big win earlier today when Rush Hour won the $500,000 Magic Millions Debut (900m) for the Nathan Doyle stable and they reinvested tonight on a filly by first crop sire Brutal.
The relationship between horse and handler can be special at times and Newhaven Park have shared some little nuggets of gold on their social feed over the weekend.