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Briskalo became a contender for a £25,000 bonus when winning the Tattersalls Cheltenham-sponsored maiden race at Chaddesley Corbett on Sunday.
Step one was to win the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden, which he did after defeating eight rivals under his Hertfordshire-based trainer/rider Bradley Gibbs. Step two will be to spring the bonus by landing a developmental hurdle or chase within two years, and because Briskalo was bred in Britain – at Yorton Stud in North Wales – he is eligible for the £25,000 payout. Horses who are bred overseas pick up £15,000 if winning one of the 15 races in the series and then scoring under rules. The victory must come within two years and they must be in the care of a licensed trainer based in Britain.
The aim is to spotlight young British point-to-pointers, give them a boost if offered at public auction and highlight the link between point-to-pointing and racing under rules.
Gibbs, who bought Briskalo for £22,000 at Doncaster in the spring on behalf of Julian Sherriff, plans to target such a race once he obtains a full licence of his own. He said: “We won’t be selling this one. Julian buys horses to have the enjoyment of owning them and seeing them run.
“I’ve been through the whole process of getting a licence and would hope to finalise things before too long. Then we can run this horse under rules and aim for the bonus. Ever since he came in after the summer I had the Chaddesley Corbett race in mind. Going there I thought he was very smart.”
A son of stallion Scalo, who stood at Yorton Stud for three years before returning to France, Briskalo was initially sold for £13,000 as an unraced two-year-old store. He entered training with Rob James in Ireland and ran twice in Irish point-to-points, finishing runner-up on the second occasion. The winner of that race, Eagle Warrior, was subsequently sold in the spring for €60,000 at Tattersalls Ireland’s May Sale and had been entered to make his British debut for trainer Nick Alexander at Newcastle on Thursday, but was not declared at the overnight stage.
Reflecting on Sunday’s race, Gibbs said: “He jumped two out and went two or three lengths clear, but he pricked his ears, had a good look in front, and they came back at him. I had winged the second-last, while Gina [Andrews on third-placed L’Hybris Is Born] had missed it. Then I got tight to the last fence, but he picked up well on the run-in.
“I bought him at Doncaster because he looked so well. He had run two weeks before he then finished second, and then four days later he had travelled to the sale and still looked tremendous. I took that as a good sign.”
Gibbs reckons yesterday’s race will throw up plenty more winners. Hoo’s The Jet finished strongly under Darren Andrews to take second, beaten a neck, while L’Hybris Is Born and the James King-ridden Barito finished another half a length behind, dead-heating for third place. The Josh Newman-trained Hoo’s The Jet has been entered in Friday’s Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale (Lot 13).
Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire stages the next race in the GB Pointing Bonus YHM Series on January 11.
