Date posted September 1, 2010 | Posted by Brian Russell | Filed under
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Show a Heart FEW can doubt after Saturday’s race results that Show a Heart, a resident in the sire yards of Queensland’s colonial sire bastion, the Glenlogan Park stud in the Innisplain valley, is a toff among Australian sires at this time.
Showing off Show a Heart’s sire prowess on Saturday were stakes winners at Rosehill Gardens and Caulfield who look set for big springs, two winners and a runner up at the Gold Coast, a winner each at Perth’s Belmont Park in Western Australia and Hastings in New Zealand and a third placegetter at Doomben.
Toorak Toff (orange jacket) wins the Golden Rose (Group 1) at Rosehill on August 28, 2010 - photo by Martin King
The two stakes winners were the Glenlogan bred Rick Hore-Lacy trained Toorak Toff, a 3-year-old colt who produced a big finish to land the million dollar Group 1 Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill Gardens, and the 6-year-old gelded Rightfully Yours, annexer of his tenth race in 24 outings when successful at Caulfield in the $100,000 Listed Clamms Seafood Stakes (1100m).
Rightfully Yours is a year older brother of Heart of Dreams, a million dollar earner and dual Group 1 winner who bounced back from a spell too finish third behind Shoot Out and Predatory Pricer in a Group 2 sprint at Caulfield on August 14. Toorak Toff, now winner of five of eight starts, was successful on the same program in the $100,000 Listed Vain Stakes.
Last Saturday’s contribution by the Show a Heart progeny coincided with the announcement that night at the Queensland Racing awards ceremony for 2009-10 that he was again Queensland Champion Sire.
Although the 2010-11 racing year is only a month old, it is an award that Show a Heart should win again. One runner in particular which is expected to fly the flag boldly for him is Toorak Toff, a galloper who looks a real good prospect for the Guineas races.
The success of Show a Heart, himself, a Queensland bred national racing star who in earning $2.3million won four Group1s, including the Caulfield Guineas, and finished second in three others, could be very valuable to Australian breeding for 47 years after his death, he is revitalising the male line of Star Kingdom, the greatest influence in Australia in the second half of last century.
Show a Heart is a fifth generation descendant of Star Kingdom and the showiest physically of the breed, being a handsome chestnut with a blaze and three white fetlocks.
He is prepotent for these qualities, and also ability with Toorak Toff being an eye catching example. They are traits that Toorak Toff can be expected to transmit on, along with a new generation of Star Kingdom descendants if, as appears likely, he goes to stud.
Toorak Toff has a double dose of Star Kingdom in his pedigree, being from Orong, an unraced sister by shuttled Grand Lodge to dual Listed winner Avilde. They are out of Blixen, a Sandown Guineas winner by Mighty Avalanche, a son of the Star Kingdom sire Kaoru Star.
Blixen was bred by Jim Koureas when he had the Dalama stud near Muswellbrook and put Mighty Avalanche to stud. Former Dalama manager Michael Fitzgerald now conducts the Bengalla stud on this Hunter river bordered property.
Glenlogan Park stud had a big day with their sires on Saturday with all four in use who have runners making contributions at metropolitan racing. Besides Show a Heart, the others were Bradbury’s Luck (Redoute’s Choice), the source in his first crop of 3-year-olds of the filly Ringa Ringa Rosie, a three lengths winner at Doomben; Falvelon (Alannon), sire of Falvelina, a mare who followed a win at Doomben on August 14 with a third behind Ringa Ringa Rosie; and Jet Spur (Flying Spur), sire of first crop 3-year-old Smart, a close second at the Doomben meeting. Smart also won at Doomben on August 14.
