ASTUTENESS of the management of Queensland located Glenlogan Park, one of the hottest breeding operations in Australia, was underlined in the past week by race results in Brisbane and Melbourne and announcement in both cities of awards for 2009-10 racing. The biggest show window for Glenlogan was racing at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm on Saturday. It saw three of the four sires currently in their stallion yards who have runners each have a winner. Like all the six sires at Glenlogan this year, themselves fleetfooted Australians, the sources of the Eagle Farm winners are Show a Heart (Class 6 winner Shaos), Falvelon (Craiglea Fountain recorded his eighth sprint win) and Jet Spur (first crop 3-year-old Equissential won over 1600m).
Down south, Show a Heart had his reputation as one of Australia’s best sires added to by another fine display in Melbourne stakes racing by one of his progeny, 5-year-old Heart of Dreams.This great hearted galloper was consistent as ever in big time Melbourne racing, finishing a half length second in the $400,000 weight-for-age Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) won by Shocking, a Street Cry gelding who produced a spectacular burst to grab honours on the line. Now boasting a record of five wins (two Group1s), five seconds (two Group1s), three thirds and over $1.3million from 19 outings, Heart of Dreams is a brother to Rightfully Yours, the winner at Caulfield the previous Saturday, August 28, of the $100,000 stakes over 1100m. The brothers are raced out of the Mick Price stables by partnerships including their breeders L. Bartle and Mrs P. Bartle. On the same day, August 28, that Rightfully Yours won at Caulfield, the Glenlogan bred, Rick Hore-Lacy trained Show a Heart colt Toorak Toff challenged as the best 3-year-old when he followed up a victory in the Vain Stakes at this track on August 15 with an eye catching annexation of the Golden Rose at Rosehill Gardens.
The success he has enjoyed around Australia since August 1 has put the Star Kingdom male line sire Show a Heart on top of the national sires list on earnings and in the leading half dozen numerically. It has also made him an odds-on favourite to receive the Queensland industry awards for their champion sire for the third successive year. It is an honour that was bestowed on him for the second time when Queensland Racing held their Awards Night in Brisbane last Saturday. Glenlogan was associated with four of the awards, two of the others being for Show a Heart offspring, Fifteen Carat (QTIS Champion 3YO) and Blazing Hearts (longest priced winner). Blazing Heart’s price, $101, was remarkable as he won the race, one at Doomben in October, by five lengths and went on to score four times and finish fourth in the Ipswich Eye Liner Stakes during the year.
The other award associated with Glenlogan was for the Bevan and Richard Laming trained Ringa Ringa Rosie, the Champion QTIS Filly. She is from the first crop of the Glenlogan based Bradbury’s Luck, a Redoute’s Choice sire who appears on track for a big future at this stud. One of his first crop 3-year-olds, Kennecott, won his second race in succession when he romped to an eased down five lengths victory in Singapore last week. Two other awards for 2009-10 announced last week that were pleasing for Glenlogan were Queensland owned Champion Broodmare Tracy’s Element (Last Tycoon – Princess Tracy, by Ahonoora) and, in Melbourne, the accolading of her Red Ransom daughter Typhoon Tracy as Australian Horse of the Year. They are both owned by Hutchins Bloodstock, Gold Coast, and Typhoon Tracy is a sister to stakes winning sprinter Red Element, a new sire at Glenlogan this year.
