Glenlogan Park stallion, Show A Heart had a big day out at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday recording a black type double in consecutive events to take his stakes tally to 13.

Talented, three-year-old gelding, Fifteen Carat got the ball rolling for the son of Brave Warrior when he charged down the middle of the track under Stathi Katsidis to claim the $100,000 Listed Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) in emphatic fashion.

Fifteen Carat had let his connections and trainer, Howard Wilson, know that he had what it took to win a decent race with a last start placing in the Group 2 Queensland Guineas behind the highly touted Rothesay.

On Saturday, he did just that winning his third race at his 14th race start. 

Purchased by Robert Stewart, for $22,000, from the draft of Warrandale Stud at the 2008 Magic Millions QTIS 600 yearling sale, Fifteen Carat was subsequently broken in and prepared for the National Horses in Training Sale later that year, where he failed to sell falling $5,000 short of the $75,000 reserve.

Fifteen Carat has since repaid connections more than $190,000 with the promise of more to come. 

Fifteen Carat is the first winner for the Snippets mare Brynica, a daughter of the stakes winning Little Pattie (by Polish Patriot). 

They hail from a family that has produced McClintock, Telltina and Lolita Star.

Forty minutes later, Katsidis gave Show A Heart his stakes double, when his skill got Woorim home in the Listed Glasshouse Hcp (1400m). 

A promising four-year-old, Woorim made it three wins on the trot, after Katsidis had navigated a path through the field in the $175,000 sprint. 

Trained by Queensland’s leading conditioner, Robert Heathcote, Woorim has gone through his classes in a manner that has him predicting a bright future for the bay four-year-old.

“He has an amazing turn of foot and can reel off some sensational sectionals,” Heathcote said.

 “We will sit down and have a think about where we go from here but my first thoughts are to send him to the paddock and then bring him back for the Melbourne Spring Carnival. He is improving all the time and I think long term a race like next year’s Stradbroke will be firmly on the agenda. I think he is that good!”

Out of Wabble (by Canadian Silver), a winner of five races from 800m to 1200m, Woorim is the first stakes winner in the family for five generations.  However, he is the second black type earner for Wabble as she has produced a full relation, My Limit, a Group 3 Rough Habit Plate placegetter.

As a racehorse, Show A Heart took six starts to break his maiden and once that was taken care of he went on to develop into a better horse than his sire.

When his elusive maiden win came, it was in the Doomben Slipper, and he then went on to add the Group I T.J. Smith Stakes and the Golden Stakes.

Tried against top-class opposition over a wide variety of distances at three, Show a Heart won just once in 13 starts, but that win came in the Group I Caulfield Guineas (1600m).  A flashy type, he also finished runner-up in Group I Oakleigh Plate at 1100m and the Newmarket Handicap at 1200m.

As a four-year, Show a Heart was campaigned purely as a sprinter/miler, where he enjoyed his best season, winning the Group I Toorak and Stradbroke Handicaps.   He made a terrific start to his new career taking honours as Leading First and Leading Second Season Sire.  

Show A Heart’s first crop supplied the group winner Gotta Have Heart along with the black-type winners Satsang and Le Vie Amour.  From his second crop came the Group 2 Tristarc Stakes winner Mimi Le Brock, and the listed winners Crossyourheart and Heart of the Citi.  

Heart of Dreams winner of the Group I Australian Guineas and Underwood Stakes is from his third crop, as is the Listed Keith Mackay Hcp winner, Shoboard.

Show A Heart will cover mares this season at a reduced fee of $30,250 (inc gst).

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