With 11 Australian two year-old winners from 30 starters this season, Yarraman Park’s new recruit Brave Smash (Jpn) is officially Australia’s leading first crop sire by winners.
A dual Group I winning sprinter in Australia, that started his racing career in Japan and raced successfully from age two to six, Brave Smash has quite literally smashed it out of the park with his first Australian runners that include stakes-winner Brave Mead and Group placed Kimochi and Brave Halo.
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace trained Brave Mead will be having his second trial back this time in work at Canterbury on Tuesday morning, while the Gary Portelli trained Kimochi had her first trial back last week at Warwick Farm and posted a soft half length win.
A Sunday Silence line sire from a top class Japanese female family, Brave Smash has the depth of pedigree to match his race performance suggesting better things are in store as his progeny mature and fulfil their potential.
Brave Smash has smaller foal crops of around 50 in each year to follow this initial group of two year-olds, but has been given the opportunity of a lifetime in transferring to Yarraman Park where he will cover a full book at a fee of $33,000.
