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Bricks and Mortar , the United States’ 2019 Horse of the Year and champion turf male, sired his first stakes winner Oct. 7 when his son Gonbade Qabus (JPN) won The Saudi Arabia Royal Cup (G3) at Tokyo Racecourse.
Gonbade Qabus, a Shadai homebred, won his racing debut June 10 by 1 3/4 lengths and followed with a two-length win in the 1,600-meter (about a mile) Saudi Arabia Royal Cup. The final time was 1:33.40. The colt is trained by Noriyuki Hori and was ridden by Kohei Matsuyama.
Bricks and Mortar entered stud at Shadai Stallion Station in 2020 after completing a racing career highlighted by five grade 1 wins. He was undefeated in 2019 as a 5-year-old, stringing together wins in the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1T), Muniz Memorial Handicap (G2T), Turf Classic Stakes (G1T), Manhattan Stakes (G1T), Arlington Million XXXVII Stakes (G1T), and Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T).
The son of Giant’s Causeway bred by George Strawbridge Jr. retired with 11 wins and two thirds out of 13 career starts and earned $7,085,650.
The breeding of Gonbade Qabus is a powerful omen of Bricks and Mortar’s future success in Japan, considering the new stakes winner is out of Affilato, a stakes-placed daughter of the late leading sire Deep Impact.
Bricks and Mortar has 54 foals in his first crop, of which 32 have started and seven have become winners.
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