SMART GOLF

NEEDS FURTHER, the homebred of Gooree Stud with brilliant pedigree background who sired by ENCOSTA DE LAGO and his dam CROWNED GLORY was 1st runner-up of Golden Slipper while he is half-brother of Golden Rose Stakes and Randwick Guineas winner, HALLOWED CROWN. NEEDS FURTHER was trained by Gai Waterhouse with 3 wins and 1 third in 5 starts including G3 Carbine Club Stakes with Nash Rawiller in the saddle. He relocated Tasmanian Armidale Stud’s stallion roaster with 9 black type contests winner, MYSTIC JOURNEY who landed Australian Guineas and All-Star Mile as his representative. His fee in 2025 is AUD$ 5,500. SMART GOLF was purchased by John Foote Bloodstock at AUD$ 60,000 as a yearling that owned by Price Bloodstock Management Ltd and trained by Patrick Payne & Michelle Payne in Australia. He took part in 6 jump outs and 2 barrier trials where he was slightly slow out and ran under his own steam for 8th in a 900M trial (7th Nov 2024), then sat on-pace early and ran on nicely to win an 900M trial (21st Jan 2025) under urge on good going. Same sire runners in HK are come from Tasmania while half-sister CRACK THE SHUTTERS collected 4 wins and 2 seconds in 6 starts from 1100M to 1200M at Tasmania up to written date and full-brother HYPERNOVA recorded 3 wins from 1000M to 1200M in South Australia. The bay gelding should be a precocious sprinter that most effective from 1000M to 1400M.