Magic Millions First Season Sires – Brutal

Tara Madgwick - Thursday January 5

Breednet’s popular First Season Sire Gallery pages are now created offering a fast and easy way to compare yearlings by the new wave of sires on type, so this time let’s take a look at a Kiwi bred that now calls the Hunter Valley home in Brutal (NZ).

Brutal (NZ)

A $220,000 NZB Book 1 Yearling Sale purchase from Mapperley Stud, Brutal retired with earnings of $2.2million winning five of 10 starts and placing in a further three.

Brutal won his only start at two over 1200m at Caulfield in mid-July and then won his first two starts as a spring three year-old in Listed races over 1200 and 1400m.

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Brutal wins the G1 Doncaster as a 3YO - image Steve Hart

In the autumn, he stepped up to the big leagues finishing second to Winx in the Group I ATC George Ryder Stakes (1500m)  at WFA and then produced his career defining performance to win the G1 ATC Doncaster Handicap (1600m).

On the pedigree front, this Newgate based sire is Danehill free and is by champion NZ sire O’Reilly from a New Zealand speed family bristling with sprinting stakes-winners.

 

He has 26 yearlings catalogued in Books 1 and 2 with images below.

Click to see all his images.

 

 

 

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