Last month we started to look at Faux Tirage who was a son of Big Game out of Commotion by Mieuxce from Riot by Colorado. Riot was a daughter of Lady Juror and a half-sister to the renowned stallion Fair Trial who we are also investigating shortly. We have already mentioned Froth and some of NZ stakes winners, so it is time to look at his influence in Australia. In all, Faux Tirage was to sire 43 individual stakes winners across Australia and New Zealand.
His stakes winners represent an interesting mix in performances. Akatarawa, for example, a gelding who was a descendant of the top broodmare Eulogy who had been imported into NZ around the time of WW1, had set a track record at Canterbury over six furlongs before later being tried as a stayer where he won the 1800m (9 fulong) Frank Underwood Cup at Rosehill. What is interesting here is that this has been often repeated in the careers of the progeny of Faux Tirage. If we look at Brigade for example, he was to win the 1967 Canterbury Cup over 9 furlongs (1800m). He was trained by Jack Green for AJC Committee member, Brian Crowley up until around a month before the race when he was transferred to the stable of TJ Smith. Smith then proceeded to try Brigade as a stayer, and he was to win three races straight over longer distances culminating in his Cup win where he took 1.3 seconds off the race record and was within 0.3 seconds of the track record.
Amanullah had run third in the December Stakes at Rosehill in what was one of the oddest races conducted at the venue. It was run in a torrential
