Weekly Scoreboard Showcases Glenlogan Sires

03-01-2012

RARE is the week in which race results around Australia fail to mirror the rise of the Jon Haseler established Glenlogan Park at Innisplain near Beaudesert in Queensland into one of the foremost studs as a base for sires of good performers.

Their input was demonstrated in remarkable fashion on Saturday when three of the four sires currently in the Glenlogan stallion yards who have runners had progeny race prominently at the Eagle Farm meeting, including winners of three stakes events.

One of these sires, two-times champion Queensland sire Show a Heart (Star Kingdom male line), in fact supplied three of the winners, Discreet (2yo filly from a Danzero mare), Dual Chamber (5yo mare out of a Lion Hunter mare) and Prost (5yo gelding, Caerleon mare), at the meeting. Discreet and Dual Chamber were successful in stakes events and another of his runners, Show A Prince (3yo gelding from a Spectrum mare), was a stakes third.  Show A Prince’s effort was in the Gold Edition Plate, an event named after a mare who was a wonderful advertisement for the quality of Queensland breeding and products of the Innisplain valley. Bred by Peter and Wendy Moran on the Noble Park stud, now Racetree, a neighbour of Glenlogan, the Lion Hunter product Gold Edition won 17 races, earned $3,182,195 and was accoladed Australasian Champion 3YO Filly.

Saturday’s Gold Edition Plate was awarded to Biggles (3yo gelding, dam by Last Tycoon), a son of the rising Glenlogan sire Jet Spur (Queensland bred son of Flying Spur), in the steward’s room. At the line he had been second to Easy Running, a son of another Queensland sire, Wattle Brae stud based Easy Rocking, a Melbourne Group1 sprint winner by the Sadler’s Wells shuttled sire Barathea.

A Caulfield Sprint winner, Jet Spur went within a long neck of siring a winning double in successive races at the Eagle Farm meeting as his first crop 4-year-old son Thefifthhole finished second to the Patinack Farm raced Show a Heart gelding Prost in the Class 6 1400m event which closed the meeting. It was Prost’s sixth win and Thefifthhole’s effort took his 12 start career to four wins and five seconds.

Two of the Show a Heart winners at Eagle Farm were quinella results for Glenlogan sires as, when Dual Chamber won the Listed Just Now Quality, a race named after another Queensland bred national star, earlier in the afternoon, the runner up place went to Skating On Ice (six wins, three seconds from16 starts). From a mare by Show a Heart’s sire Brave Heart, Skating On Ice is a first crop representative of their Magic Millions 2YO Classic winning Redoute’s Choice sire Bradbury’s Luck.

Skating On Ice was the only runner by Bradbury’s Luck at the meeting, but he also met with success at other ‘weekend’ meetings. On Friday, the 4-year-old Scene Of The Crime (dam by Dynaformer) scored by two lengths at the Sunshine Coast and the 3-year-old Skater Dude (Anabaa) won comfortably at Ipswich, and on Sunday his 3-year—old daughter Lucky Sparkle lived up to her favouritism and romped to a six lengths win in a1600m maiden at Ballarat.

Bradbury’s Luck, Show a Heart and Jet Spur are three of four sires, all brilliant Australian gallopers, at Glenlogan who have offspring of racing age.The other is Queensland bred, owned and trained Falvelon, the winner 15 races, including the Hong Kong International Sprint and Doomben 10,000 on two occasions each.

A son of Alannon, a sire who was a big loss when he died after only one season at Glenlogan, Falvelon did not have any metropolitan winners at the weekend, but was represented at Flemington on Saturday by first crop 7-year-old Falco Star, runner up in the 1000m Red Tempo Handicap. He has won eight races, including five in Brisbane, and is one of over 200 winners (six SWs, 14 SPs) who have represented Falvelon to date.They have won in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau and South Africa.  Falvelon is one crop behind Show a Heart, a handsome, showy chestnut winner of four Group1s and placed in four others who is the source of over 250 winners (15 SWs,19 SPs) headed by four million dollar earners. One of the very few Australian resident sires to be champion New Zealand juvenile sire, he also has had winners around Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau and South Africa.

The increased popularity of the younger sires Bradbury’s Luck and Jet Spur should also see them enjoy widespread success overseas. Bradbury’s Luck already has had winners in Perth (including Group1 Railway Stakes), Brisbane (including Group 1 T.J. Smith second Ringa Ringa Rosie), Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, New Zealand and Singapore.  Represented by 12 2-year-old winners in his first crop and 15 in his second in 2010-11, a year he was third leading two crop sire, the other Glenlogan sire with runners, Jet Spur has also had winners overseas. 

The success of the four Glenlogan sires suggests their progeny are among the best prospects at yearling sales.The bulk of their 2012 sale yearlings will be available at the Gold Coast in January 11-18 and March 18-19 (Queensland breeders QTIS sale). Three Glenlogan sires who have good selections in the prestigious Magic Millions January series at the Gold Coast are Show a Heart (17 lots), Jet Spur (15) and newcomer Real Saga (21).

A son of Coolmore’s shuttling Storm Cat sire Tale of the Cat, a source of more than 150 stakes performers world wide, Real Saga has the credentials and opportunity to be the best of the Glenlogan sires to date. Only raced at two, a year in which he won four of his six outings and achieved the highest rating for a juvenile colt in the past decade, he started favourite in both the Blue Diamond (second) and Golden Slipper (fourth).

Real Saga has over one hundred foals in his first crop, including the 21 in the January Gold coast sales. These sale yearlings include progeny of mares by three Golden Slipper winners, Flying Spur, Rory’s Jester and Catbird, and also Anabaa, Danehill, Grand Lodge, Mossman, Volksraad, Quest for Fame, Hurricane Sky, Show a Heart, Blevic, Thunder Gulch and Octagonal.

 Courtesy of Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service