THERE could be rapturous celebration at the Glenlogan Park Stud, Innisplain Valley,Qld if imported galloper Lidari lives up to his good performances out here, including a win in the Group 2 Blamey at Flemington last autumn, a close second in the Group1 Turnbull on October 2 on the same track and competent fifth in Saturday's Caulfield Cup, and wins the Melbourne Cup.
Although they had nothing to do with the breeding of Lidari, the Jon Haseler headed Glenlogan Park management, in the astute manner which has made the stud one of the most successful in Queensland this century, are in the ownership of this O T I Racing (Simon O'Donnell and Tim Henderson) syndicated stallion.
Melbourne Cup success for this 2009 foaled son of Acclamation, one of the most speed prepotent sires in Europe at this time, would further enhance his fashion as a future sire. It is fashion that also could be boosted by success as sires out here of Acclamation's shuttling leading sprinting sons Harbour Watch, an unbeaten Timeform Champion European 2YO on his second trip to Emirates Park, Hunter Valley, and Equiano, a visitor to Adam Sangster's Swettenham Stud at Nagambie.
A prominent first season sire in Europe for 2014 and expected to do well with his first 2-year-olds in Australia this year, Equiano was a historic winner twice of the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and accoladed Champion OIder Male Great Britain 2010.
The good performance by Lidari in the Caulfield Cup capped another good week for Glenlogan Park, a stud which has been a big successful source through sire choice since they put Queensland bred top notch Australian sprinter Show a Heart (Star Kingdom male line) into their stallion yards in 2002.
He has been champion Queensland sire five times, a Leading New Zealand Juvenile Sire and has supplied five million dollar earners. It is a record that suggests he is real good value at his fee of $16,500.
Since the acquisition of Show a Heart, Glenlogan has concentrated on brilliant Australian racehorses by sires who have been big forces for the transmission of excellence. Besides Show a Heart, they host at this time the prominent winner getters Bradbury's Luck (by Redoute's Choice), Jet Spur (Flying Spur), Falvelon (from only crop by Glenlogan stood Alannon), Real Saga (Tale of the Cat) and Red Element (Red Ransom).
Glenlogan's youngest sire, the Fastnet Rock Queensland Guineas and Brisbane Lord Mayor's Cup winner Rothesay is likely to follow the stud's other current sires and make a good impact with his first crop, current 2-year-olds. He already has trial winners and a placegetter.
In the Australian statistics, Show a Heart had 13 first crop juvenile winners (2005-06), Falvelon11 (2006-07), Jet Spur 12 and Bradbury's Luck 8 (both 2006-07), Real Saga 9 (2012-13) and Red Element 8 (2013-14).
It
is a rare week that runners by Glenlogan sires don't reward the management. On
Wednesday (October 15) for instance Bradbury's Luck had a new stakes winner
when the Philip Atkins trained visitor from Newcastle In Cahoots lived up to
his favouritism with an accomplished win an $120,000 Listed sprint at
Caulfield.
Set to challenge at Group 2 level at the Melbourne spring carnivals, he has showed up as a good racehorse right through his 13 starts. Another of his five wins has been in the Gosford Guineas and among six minor placings has been four stakes efforts, seconds in the Testa Rossa (half head) at Caulfield and Show County at Randwick, and thirds in the Royal Sovereign at this track and Bobbie Lewis at Flemington.
Another bargain buy, In Cahoots was secured by his owner, L. R. Rowan (Turfscape Pty Ltd), for only $10,000 out of the Carramar Park (Grose Wold) draft at the 2012 Sydney Classic Yearling sale. His dam, the Rory's Jester mare Hot Copper, was sold empty for $1,300 at an Inglis spring sale in 2011, but died in March 2013.
Represented by earners of $2,374,922 in 2013-14, Bradbury's Luck, like Show a Heart, has found favour interstate and in Asia. His principal winners are Perth champion Luckygrey (13 wins, $2,582,425, five Group1 cheques – wins WATC Railway Stakes twice, Kingston Town Classic, seconds in each of these races and fourth at Moonee Valley in the William Reid), Fire Up Fifi (12 wins, $686,925, at Flemington won Group 2 Rose of Kingston Stakes and third Group1 Empire Rose Stakes, third to Luckygray in the 2013 running of the Railway in Perth), Cash Luck (8 wins, $706,975 Singapore, won Group1 Singapore Mile, second Group1 Singapore Guineas) and Ringa Ringa Rosie (three wins, $278,150, at Eagle Farm win Golden Stakes and second Group1 T.J. Smith Stakes).
Bradbury's Luck is standing the 2014 season on $11,000, the same fee as Jet Spur, the Queensland bred son of Flying Spur who also showed off for the Glenlogan on the Wednesday, supplying a double at the Ipswich meeting, Ten Speed (3yo, won 1200m by 1.3 lengths) and Jack's Jet (4yo, 1.5 lengths) – also won Gold Coast two weeks earlier.
He has also been represented since late September by Gundy Spirit (Doomben), Scrat (won Singapore), Halayr Jet (Morphetteville), Nivali (Sunshine Coast), Streaky Bay (Gosford), Beau Jet (Sunshine Coast twice), Sheeda (Gold Coast), Sir Caspur (Macau), Lady Sioux and Syn City (Toowoomba – first 2-year-old winner in Australia for 2013-14), to mention a few.
At mid October, the leading sire on earnings and in the top twenty nationally by wins, Jet Spur is one of two Glenlogam sires quick off the mark with new 2-year-olds this year. The other is Falvelon, the sire of Madotti, a promising second at the Gold Coast on debut and then a smart winner of the juvenile event which opened the program at Doomben on Saturday. - Brian Russell Media
