Brutal to Stud After Corona Cancellations

Breednet - Tuesday March 31

Doncaster winner Brutal has had his career brought to a halt courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic with his retirement announced.

BrutalBrutal had been in work with a preparation targeted at the Brisbane Winter Carnival and Group One Stradbroke Handicap with a possible tilt at Royal Ascot afterwards.

With the winter carnival abandoned however and Royal Ascot under a coronavirus cloud, the four year -old has been retired to stand at Newgate Farm.

"It's disappointing but that's the way the cookie crumbles," said Newgate Farm's managing director Henry Field.

"The long-range plan was to bring him back and run him in Brisbane and Rupert (Legh, part-owner) had aspirations to go to Royal Ascot.

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"If we could have envisaged this would have happened we would have got him ready for the All Aged Stakes but it wasn't to be. It's just a shame we couldn't knock off a few more Group 1 races before he went to stud."

Brutal retires as the winner of five races and $2.6 million from 10 starts with the Group One 2019 Doncaster Mile the jewel in the crown.

He also won the Gr2 Premiere Stakes and twice at Listed level.

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