Monday, April 27, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australiasian bloodstock industry subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING Monday, April 27, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 14 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 8 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 17 Brutal’s fee set for first Read Tomorrow's Issue For: season at Newgate Stallion Watch The 2019 Doncaster Mile winner will stand for $27,500, GST What's on inclusive, as he joins Tassort at stud Race meetings: Grafton (NSW), Narromine (NSW), Wodonga (VIC), Albany (WA) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Warwick Farm (NSW), Grafton (NSW), Narromine (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Swan Hill (VIC), Moe (VIC) HONG KONG NEWS Purton creates history as Exultant takes QE II Cup Zac Purton was elated and deflated at the end Brutal SPORTPIX of Exultant's (Teofilo) glorious, grinding victory who bought the colt at the 2017 New Zealand in the HK$25 million FWD Queen Elizabeth II BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS Bloodstock Karaka Premier Yearling Sale for Cup (Gr 1, 2000m) at Sha Tin yesterday. rutal (O’Reilly), the lightest-raced $220,000 from the draft of Mapperley Stud, sold The brave bay's willingness to stretch for winner of the Doncaster Mile (Gr 50 per cent to Newgate on the condition that he his rider through every demanding stride of the 1, 1600m) in the race’s 154-year raced on as a four-year-old. 2000-metre feature meant the champion jockey history, will serve his first mares at The Newgate Farm team, led by Slade and became the only rider in history to have won BNewgate Farm next season at a fee of $27,500 managing director Henry Field, have made every Group 1 race on the Hong Kong calendar. (inc GST). ratings a key element in their identification of new "The feeling going over the line - it was a Described as an “absolute Adonis - big, stallion prospects, as was the case with recently combination of everything!" Purton said. "I've black and powerful” by Newgate’s director of announced acquisition Tassort (Brazen Beau). come close to winning this race so many times, stallions Bruce Slade, Brutal was acquired by On ratings, Brutal’s racetrack efforts stamped him it's been very frustrating and after missing the the farm last year, weeks after that Doncaster as elite from the moment he debuted as a late two- bob in the previous race, to win this was a sense triumph at just his seventh start. Rupert Legh, year-old at Caulfield. Continued on page 3>> of relief." Continued on page 11 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Brutal’s fee set for first season at Newgate | 3 | Monday, April 27, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “For us, we believe that elite performance is the key factor among all leading stallions that make an impact in Australia,” Slade told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. “They have elite athleticism, elite ability and those are horses that are your best chance of passing that on. “It’s vital and it’s important to us to communicate just how elite Brutal really was. We don’t feel that he had the opportunity in the end to show that. He did some pretty incredible things along the way that just tag him as elite and as high-class as any other stallion going to stud this year. “For Brutal, he was flagged as a potentially elite prospect when he won on debut by five lengths as a two-year-old. He beat Mystic Journey and a few other handy horses and he posted a big rating through our system. This is why our ratings have become so important to us; it is because of horses like this who post these ratings early on and then they go on and John and Michael Hawkes with Glen Boss SPORTPIX deliver.” The Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes-trained Brutal won his first behind champion Winx (Street Cry) at her penultimate start, with this three starts, taking the McKenzie Stakes (Listed, 1200m) at Moonee Valley year’s George Ryder winner Dreamforce (Fastnet Rock) back in third. and the Exford Plate (Listed, 1400m) at Flemington in addition to his two- He then progressed to the Doncaster Mile at just his seventh start. year-old victory before a minor cut to a hock ruled him out of the spring’s Tackling a capacity field of 20 runners over the gruelling Randwick mile, traditional stallion-making races, the Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) and among his rivals were nine Group 1 winners. Lightly weighted but drawn the Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m). wide, he was given a tremendous ride from Glen Boss, settling handy one Returning in the 2019 autumn, he finished third in the Southern Cross off the rail. He won by a length, but it was as comfortable a Doncaster win Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) and second in the George Ryder Stakes (Gr 1, 1500m) as can be. Continued on page 5>> REGISTER TO BID APRIL 24-30 ONLINE SALE SALE NOW OPEN Catalogue available at inglisdigital.com Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by Brutal’s fee set for first season at Newgate | 5 | Monday, April 27, 2020 << Continued from page 3 “He won the Doncaster at his seventh and, I’m telling you, this horse is the real deal. You really should be buying start, and that hasn’t been done in the history of the Doncaster, a time- this horse to stand at Newgate.’ That conversation was crucial, with John’s honoured race,” Slade said. “No horse in that time has won the race within absolute conviction that this horse was the real deal. seven starts. When you think of all the top horses that have lined up in “We bought him and he came back and won the Premiere Stakes very a Doncaster, from a historical perspective, it tells you just how good this well, it’s a Group 2 weight-for-age sprint that is the best lead-up to the horse was.” Everest given it’s only two weeks before.” The Everest (1200m) was considered, with slot-holders chasing Brutal I’ve trained a lot of good for the $14 million Randwick feature. However, the Hawkes team decided to head to the Sydney Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) on the Everest undercard as horses and, I’m telling you, an easier lead-up to his main target - and what would in time be his final this horse is the real deal. You start - the $7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m) at Rosehill for four-year- really should be buying this horse olds. He finished third as favourite in the Sydney Stakes behind Deprive to stand at Newgate. (Denman) before he was injured in running when 11th in the Golden - John Hawkes Eagle to Kolding (Ocean Park). “We were offered slots in the Everest with this horse and Mr Hawkes advised us that he didn’t want to give him a gutbuster with the Golden Eagle his main aim,” Slade said. “Then in the Golden Eagle, he chipped a He was spelled soon afterwards, with Newgate joining the ownership joint after getting a terrible run in transit. He pulled up with an injury after group while he was in the paddock. It was a conversation between Field that race and he had to have it cleaned up. and John Hawkes that initiated the process of Brutal joining Newgate’s “We were going to try and bring him back for the Stradbroke, but that team ahead of a spring campaign. didn’t eventuate with the coronavirus situation. Unfortunately, injury Slade said: “John sat down with Henry, just like he did with Deep and then coronavirus stopped him from showing just how elite he was Field, and said, ‘Henry, this horse is elite. I’ve trained a lot of good horses this season so he’s only been a very lightly-raced Continued on page 7>> Updated daily, the information on each stallion includes; top performer, recent race & auction results, upcoming race entries, sire statistics, hypothetical pedigrees with Truenicks Over 36,000+ 400,000 users in sessions Over 2019 5.2m screen views Follow us @anz_news | 5 | Brought to you by Brutal’s fee set for first season at Newgate | 7 | Monday, April 27, 2020 << Continued from page 5 horse. “He was a very, very special racehorse. We saw glimpses of it, but if we had the opportunity to race him on, things could look very different. He’s a horse coming in at that $25,000 bracket this year who I believe is as talented as any other racehorse going to stud this year. I say that with total conviction and total belief.” Slade is already looking forward to the types of yearlings that Brutal will be able to produce, particularly given the impression he leaves as a physical type. “He’s a very safe bet from a commercial point of view,” Slade said. “He’s a very good-looking horse, he’s a John Hawkes physical in that John picked him out at the sales and paid a lot of money for him. He’s by O’Reilly and he’s an absolute Adonis - he’s big, black and powerful, he’s very much in that sprinter-miler mould. “O’Reilly can get different types. He has the bigger, scopey sorts that can get a bit of a trip, horses like Master O’Reilly who have won Caulfield Cups. He’s also had top sprinters and sprinter-milers and Brutal is very Brutal SPORTPIX much one of those.