Phillip Stokes has decided against nominating his two-year-old trial sensation for any races at Morphettville on Saturday, instead opting to send the promising juvenile to Melbourne.
Brazen Boy generated excitement with his visually impressive trial win, which has prompted Stokes to aim higher and send him to Sandown.
.@Racing's @MaccasMock said Brazen Boy's trial this morning was 'the best visual performance I have seen from a juvenile in S.A. since Miracles Of Life on November 30 2012.'
See it for yourself… pic.twitter.com/Ve0yFrliwt
— TheRacesSA (@TheRacesSA) October 26, 2020
“I’ve decided to bring him to Melbourne and run him in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes at Sandown on Saturday week,” said Stokes when speaking to racing.com.
“If he can come here and win it would be a massive result for his owners as they bred him and obviously still own the dam Cocoa Doll.
“She has a Written Tycoon filly being sold at the Gold Coast Magic Millions Sale in January and if this bloke could strike in the Merson Cooper it will add quite a few dollars on her.
“Brazen Boy himself reminds me a lot of a precocious filly I trained called Freestyle for John Messara.
“She only had seven starts and won four of them and coincidentally won the Merson Cooper at her first race start.”
