Brasch takes leap of faith

Thursday 20 December 2012, 3:13pm

Jeff Brasch has recently taken a big leap and decided to focus on training full-time.

On Saturday, the Mudgee-based horseman is happy to take another punt by bringing unraced two-year-old Nuclear Snip to town for a $250,000 contest.

Brasch had been combining his work as a stud manager at Guntawang Stud in Mudgee with training a small team of horses.

But on the back of the success of his stable star Ideal Position, who won at Rosehill in June and placed in the Listed Civic Stakes, Brasch recently decided to go all-out with training.

"I must say I'm very much enjoying it," he said.

"I really enjoyed doing the stud side of it but I just felt having a nice horse like Ideal Position and a couple of other nice horses in the stable that it was the right time to start training full-time."

Nuclear Snip was picked out by Gooree Park Stud manager Andrew Baddock and his son Tom and bought for $7500 at the Scone Yearling Sale in May, with Brasch asked to train him.

The gelding has shown enough to warrant a start in the sales-restricted Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

"He's actually a very professional horse and has got a great nature," Brasch said.

"Obviously, he's being thrown into the deep end in what looks a good quality field but the thing is he's done everything right in his barrier trial and trackwork so we just felt it was worth a crack and we'll see how it goes."

Brasch said the number of horses he trained had grown to 18 since he went full-time.

Ideal Position was Brasch's first runner in town on a Saturday and he met with immediate success when the gelding scored at Rosehill in June.

He was also the trainer's first black type runner when third in the Listed Civic Stakes a start later.

Nuclear Snip's Warwick Farm appearance will also be significant for Brasch.

"It's the biggest race, prizemoney-wise, I've ever had a runner in," Brasch said.

"And I think if he did manage to do really well it would certainly give me a boost."

– AAP

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