Brazen Beau To Shuttle To Britain

Australian sprint champion Brazen Beau (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}), who is currently covering his first book at Darley’s Kelvinside Stud in Australia, will be one of four new reverse-shuttlers to Darley’s European studs for the 2016 breeding season. Brazen Beau was a two-time Group 1 winner Down Under, taking the G1 Coolmore Stud S. followed by the G1 Newmarket H. against elders before finishing a hard-luck second in the G1 Diamond Jubilee S. at Royal Ascot.

Fellow first-year sires Hallowed Crown (Aus) (Street Sense) and Shooting To Win (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}) will reverse-shuttle to Darley’s Kildangan Stud in Ireland. Hallowed Crown was a dual Group 1 winner at three, while Shooting To Win was a Group 1-winning miler.

Traveling to Haras du Logis in France will be first-year sire Sidestep (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), a dual Group 2 winner who was also second in the G1 Golden Slipper, the world’s richest 2-year-old race.

“Darley’s shuttle stallions have already made a significant impact on Northern Hemisphere racing, notably Exceed And Excel, who is the world’s leading sire of juvenile stakes winners,” said Darley’s Director of Stallions Sam Bullard. “In addition, our young shuttlers Sepoy and Helmet were very well received at the yearling sales this autumn.”

“We are delighted to be introducing European breeders to four well-bred, precocious and very talented new horses in the same mold,” Bullard added. “The best Australian horses have a market all around the world and in Brazen Beau, Hallowed Crown, Shooting To Win and Sidestep we really do have the best that there is.”