"This is something we have been angling towards for a number of years and with the national scene going from strength-to-strength in recent times, now seemed like the ideal time to make the transition," Glenlogan Park principal Jon Haseler said. "Our focus will be on producing the very best yearlings and racehorses we can and presenting them at all of the major sales around the country."
Glenlogan Park has been standing stallions for the past 25 years and the sires on the farm have dominated the local racing scene in recent years.
"We are very, very proud of what our stallions have achieved over a long period of time," Glenlogan's General Manager Steve Morley said. "The influence they have had, and continue to have, on racing up here is almost unparalleled when they are considered as an entire group.
"A terrific example of that was in the QTIS $1million race on Magic Millions day in January. From the 19 final acceptors, an incredible 15 of those could trace their roots directly to Glenlogan Park and our stallions!
"That is an amazing achievement and a real credit to the strength of the stallion roster right across the board.
"We won it with Madotti (Falvelon) who was really brave as she held out the flying In His Stride (Rothesay) late. It was beautiful to watch!"
Although no longer standing stallions on the farm, Glenlogan Park will still
maintain a close association and ownership with four sires going forward."We launched the career of Written Tycoon's brilliant son Rich Enuff last year and he is a sire we have enormous amount of faith in," Morley added. "He served a cracking book of mares in his first season that will give him a terrific chance to really explode out of the blocks and I know our partners down in Victoria (Woodside) have already had tremendous interest in him this year."
"He is such a magnificent looking animal and he has all the ingredients to be a real superstar! He is a horse we will continue to support heavily with our own mares and we will be right behind them all the way through to the racetrack. There is no way I can see this stallion being anything but a star!"
Glenlogan will also join forces with a trio of quality Queensland farms to stand three of their other sires this season in Rothesay, Real Saga and Jet Spur.
"We absolutely realise that these three still have so much to offer the Qld racing and breeding scene and having them available to breeders is imperative as they really do provide the backbone to a lot of our metropolitan racing up here," Morley said.
Rothesay will take up stallion duties at Lyndhurst Stud with Jeff and Griff
Kruger, Real Saga will be with Scott McAlpine at Eureka and Jet Spur has been
placed at Grandview under the care of Michael Grieve.The two "older champs", Show A Heart, who turns 20 this year, and Falvelon, who is a rising 21 year-old, will remain at Glenlogan Park.
"We didn't even consider relocating either of these as I'm sure they deserve their time in the sun and I think it is very fitting that two horses who have done so much to promote racing and breeding here in Queensland will now get to grow old in comfort and in partnership with each other," Morley said. "They may get the odd walk-on mare to keep the spring in their step, but basically we are retiring them."
"Although this decision is tinged with a touch of sadness, it is also an exciting time for us here at the farm and we are looking forward to seeing what we can achieve on a national scale whilst still working closely with Lyndhurst, Eureka and Grandview to ensure the continued success of their three new editions."
