The juvenile event at Eagle Farm on Saturday featured first starters by Yarraman sires Brave Smash (Jpn) and I Am Invincible and they duly filled the quinella.
The Matt Dunn-trained Brave Smash filly, Strawberry Smash, was second in a recent trial at Beaudesert and despite being easy in the market she hit the line full of running to beat Tony Gollan’s I Am Invincible colt Lockyer by three-quarters of a length in the 1000m scamper with more than four lengths back to the rest.
WOW 💥 Smash and Vinnie 2YOs put four lengths on the field in the first @BrisRacingClub over 1000m!
🥇 Strawberry Smash (2f, Brave Smash)
🥈 Lockyer (2c, Vinnie) pic.twitter.com/ZriU9ZO6R6— Yarraman Park Stud (@yarramanpark) November 2, 2024
Strawberry Smash was a modest $17,500 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale purchase for Goldmount Lodge and Lockyer is a graduate of Yarraman Park.
Strawberry Smash is the first winner from the third crop of foals by Brave Smash, whose first Hunter-bred foals are arriving this spring.
Brave Smash colt 💥
The second foal of stakes-winning, G2-placed mare Like A Butterfly, whose first foal by Hellbent sold for $300,000 @magicmillions to Mystery Downs and is already a winner from just three starts.
📸 11 October pic.twitter.com/LRZvU0LgzB
— Yarraman Park Stud (@yarramanpark) October 29, 2024
📸 A natural indeed! 📸
Brave Smash x The Natural (Fastnet Rock), colt ‘24 pic.twitter.com/KcCLRhC9dK
— Yarraman Park Stud (@yarramanpark) October 14, 2024
3YO #YarramanGrad Kuroyanagi took out Race 2 on Caulfield Guineas Day @MelbRacingClub.
Out of the Gimcrack-placed Vinnie mare TETSUKO, here’s the ‘24 colt by BRAVE SMASH – bred on the same cross as Kimochi. pic.twitter.com/V5eHnhpBbA
— Yarraman Park Stud (@yarramanpark) October 12, 2024
