FREUD: The Only 2018 NA Top-40 Sire Standing for < $12.5K

Fourstar Crook ($1,213,166) & Our Braintrust Become Freud’s Latest Millionaire & SW Respectively

By Rab Hagin

At Belmont on Friday, June 8, older mare FOURSTAR CROOK ($1,213,166) won the $600,000 Grade 2 New York Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets at a mile and a quarter on turf, and May-foaled 2-year-old colt OUR BRAINTRUST remained unbeaten by winning the listed Tremont Stakes at 5½ furlongs on dirt. Both are offspring of perennially-leading New York sire FREUD, demonstrating a siring versatility on one race card that appears unparalleled in New York Racing Association competition. FOURSTAR CROOK, a multiple Grade 2 winner making a serious claim as North America’s top turf female, races for Michael Dubb, Mike Caruso’s Bethlehem Stables LLC and Gary Aisquith. OUR BRAINTRUST, now two-for-two and the youngest starter (only May-foaled juvenile) in the historic (126th) Tremont, races for Cathal Lynch (trainer) and Stanton J. Smith Jr. Freud, with 2018 North American progeny earnings of almost $2.5-million through June 10 (over $52-million cumulative), was the only sire of two winners on Belmont’s June 8 card.

Speed. Stamina. Dirt. Turf. Precocity. Longevity. Colt. Mare. Ability to break. Ability to rate. Ability to hold off challengers. Ability to close. All that and more highlighted in two events on one race card.

Freud was the only sire of three winners of the 43 races – 19 stakes – during the four-day (June 7-10) Belmont Stakes Racing Festival and one of only two sires of two stakes winners (the other on June 9) in the Festival. Interestingly, Freud’s winners scored on all three (dirt, inner turf, outer turf) Belmont strips.