The Everest win by Yes Yes Yes was by far the biggest success Bradley's Arlington Park Racing have ever had as breeders, and represents a significant boost in the residual value of Yes Yes Yes' dam, Sin Sin Sin (Fantastic Light {USA}) and her future progeny.
The Everest win, the first by a 3-year-old, the first by a colt in the short history of the race and in track record time, is a significant source of pride for the Wagga Wagga-based Bradley family.
"It's a huge thrill, I was just talking about it with the family this morning and was saying, while it’s a shame that we don’t have a share in the horse, I feel as close if not closer to the horse because we bred him than if I'd bought him. It's a great feeling and we still have the mare. We've got a strong connection, it feels really good," he told TDN AusNZ.
Yes Yes Yes as a yearling
Bradley only has around seven broodmares, the majority of them based at Kitchwin Hills, where Yes Yes Yes was foaled and raised, but he won't be dining out on the colt's success with a spending spree at the upcoming yearling and breeding sales, nor will it change the way he manages his star broodmare.
"I don’t think it changes a whole lot. I'm a big believer in doing your research on sires with your mares. But you always need to go with your gut too. Sometimes, you can over analyse it. I'm not going to rush off and send this mare to Snitzel or Vinnie (I Am Invincible), I'll do what is best for her," he said.
A visit to Zoustar
Sin Sin Sin, having missed to Not A Single Doubt in 2018, has already visited Widden Stud's rising star Zoustar earlier this season.
"I've always liked Encosta De Lago as a stallion, I know he's got a better reputation as a broodmare sire than as a sire of sires at this stage, but he had Northern Meteor who was a great horse and he's got Rubick," Bradley said.
"We've seen what Zoustar's doing now, that goes back through the Encosta line. After what she has done with Rubick, I think it’s a good move to go to Zoustar."
Zoustar, was visited by Sin Sin Sin earlier this season
The small aspect that Yes Yes Yes' win does change is what Bradley will do if the resultant foal, or any future foal from Sin Sin Sin, is a filly.
"I'll probably always continue to sell them, the only exception being the next filly that comes out of Sin Sin Sin. I want to keep the family going. It'd be great to continue to have the attachment to that family. I think it is going to be one of the stronger families in the stud book going forward," he said.
"In Her Time (Time Thief) is from the same family. It’s going really well and there's a lot of fillies and mares that will continue to go quite well from that family. I'll definitely want to keep an attachment to it."
"It’s going really well and there's a lot of fillies and mares that will continue to go quite well from that family. I'll definitely want to keep an attachment to it." - Brett Bradley
Bradley did look to have secured that next generation when he purchased Yes Yes Yes' stakes-placed half-sister Dee Nine Elle (Duporth) back through the 2018 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale for $180,000, having sold her for $90,000 to Tony Gollan as a yearling back in 2014.
However, the success of Yes Yes Yes as a stakes-winning 2-year-old saw Dee Nine Elle re-offered by Bradley through this year's National Broodmare Sale in foal to Merchant Navy and she was sold to Badgers Bloodstock for $720,000.
"When Yes Yes Yes started going so well, I thought I’d test the market and put her back through the ring. So we sold her at Magics. There's a part of me that wished that I'd kept her, but I'm happy what we got for her, it was a good trade," he said.
Dee Nine Elle
The other change in Bradley's future planning will of course be when it comes to stallion selection for his other mares in the years to come should Yes Yes Yes fulfil his spot on part-owner Coolmore's roster in the future as is expected to be the case after his win on Saturday.
Aussie move sparks thoroughbred investment
Bradley was always interested in horse racing but it wasn't until he moved to Australia from America 23 years ago that he began to ramp up his interest into ownership and breeding.
"I wasn't really into breeding in the US at all. I moved to Australia and became friends with a few people that were into racing and met my wife, who is also into racing and horses. That got me into the horse scene," he said.
"I wasn't really into breeding in the US at all. I moved to Australia and became friends with a few people that were into racing and met my wife, who is also into racing and horses." - Brett Bradley
He had some success as an owner, notably, with his interest in the Group 1 winning weight-for-age performer Foreteller (GB) (Dansili {GB}), who like Yes Yes Yes, was trained by Chris Waller.
"Foreteller would have been my best horse. He won three Group 1s. He ran in a Melbourne Cup and ran fourth and fifth in two Cox Plates and that's my favourite race in Australia. If you are a weight-for-age race lover, that is the race you’d like to be in. He did us proud there," he said.
"It was very exciting and for him to win the Underwood, the Ranvet and the Makybe Diva, those were great days."
Foreteller (GB)
Sin Sin Sin comes onto the radar
Always keen on looking far and wide for racing prospects, Bradley took a phone call from a bloodstock agent friend in late 2007 about a filly by Fantastic Light (USA), who had impressively won an unofficial barrier trial in New Zealand. Eighteen months earlier, Australian-bred Sin Sin Sin had been sold as a weanling to New Zealand interests for $34,000.
"I had a look at the DVD and said, yep, we'll take her," he said.
"I had a look at the DVD and said, yep, we'll take her." - Brett Bradley
"We brought her out here and we started her first up in the Wellington Boot as a 2-year-old and she was backed from 20s into 5s and she won it and we thought we had something special.
"She had a few niggling problems as a racehorse, so she never did anything spectacular but we always had a bit of faith in her. She's a super type. There was no way we were ever going to move her on, we were always going to breed from her. We’ve had a bit of luck with that. She's been good to us."
Indeed, Sin Sin Sin has proven the broodmare of a lifetime for Arlington Park Racing. Her first live foal, Dee Nine Elle won five races and nearly $300,000 for Gollan, including a valuable placing in a Listed Bright Shadow S., while Another Sin (Duporth), sold for $65,000 to Brett Cavanough, won at Rosehill on debut and has picked up just short of $145,000 in a 22-start career which has featured four wins.
Sin Sin Sin
It was those early successes which gave Bradley the confidence to upgrade from Duporth, a stallion he held a share in, to Coolmore's first season stallion Rubick after Sin Sin Sin unfortunately lost a filly by Epaulette.
The result of that decision has now changed racing history and Bradley hopes there is even more success to follow, with an unnamed 2-year-old by Press Statement now with Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, while a Sebring colt is set to be offered at next year's yearling sales.
"There might be even more to come with her because we are continuing to upgrade where she is going, so we are very excited about that," Bradley said.
