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Show A Heart Bows Out A Winner
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AAMI – STRADBROKE H. GROUP 1 - $1,000,0000 – EAGLE FARM
1 SHOW A HEART (ch h 4y Brave Warrior – Miss Sandman by Regal Advice (NZ)). Trainer B. N. Miller. 56 D Nikolic.
2 FALVELON (b h 5y Alannon – Devil’s Zephyr by Zephyr Zing (NZ)) 56 D Oliver.
3 KINGSGATE (br g 4y Danzero – Vowed by Without Fear (FR)) 51.5 B York.
Margins: Half-neck x three-quarters length.
It was a great tragedy when Brave Warrior died from the result of a paddock accident after just two seasons at stud. But what a magnificent legacy he has left us with today’s Stradbroke Handicap (G1) winner Show a Heart. The gallant Barry Miller trained colt reversed the Doomben 10000 (G1) decision with his old adversary Falvelon to win his fourth Group One race in a stellar racetrack career. The next time Show A Heart and Falvelon meet will be over a paddock fence at Glenlogan Park where Show A Heart will now retire, to be joined next season by Falvelon. The Stradbroke result was a triumph for the locally bred stallions, providing the trifecta.
BRAVE WARRIOR
Starting from barrier 22, Show A Heart’s rider Danny Nikolic elected to give the chestnut plenty of time to find his feet. Coming to the home turn he had only last years Stradbroke Handicap winner Crawl behind him. Nikolic weaved a course through the field to stage a thrilling duel with Falvelon, whose jockey Damien Oliver had further back in the field than his custom. On the line Show a Heart had a half-neck advantage over Falvelon with Kingsgate a further three-quarters of a length away third. He becomes the first Queensland trained winner of the Stradbroke since the Bill Calder-trained Dancing Poet won the race in 1987.
Show A Heart retires to stud as the winner of 6 races from 33 starts with 9 seconds and one third for earnings of $2,279,000. His previous Group One victories came in the T. J. Smith Stakes (G1) at Eagle Farm as a 2yo, the Caulfield Guineas (G1) after the first past the post Skalato was subsequently disqualified for returning a positive swab to Ketoprosen, and the Toorak H. (G1) at Caulfield.
"I'm looking forward to him going to stud," said the champion’s trainer Barry Miller who has three shares in the stallion. The Stradbroke victory has forced Glenlogan Park principal Jon Haseler to restrict Show A Heart’s stud bookings to applications only. "He's already got about 90 bookings and we only want 120 in his first year so future bookings will have to be made by application," Haseler said.
Show Of Heart comes from the first crop of the tragic Brave Warrior whose death in April 1998 after only two seasons at Eureka Stud was a blow to the Queensland and Australian breeding industries. The dam of Show Of Heart is the stakes placed Regal Advice mare Miss Sandman the winner of 12 races and over $178,000.
Miss Sandman is a direct descendent of the English 1000 Guineas winner Cinna, a mare who has had a profound influence on the breed in Australasia.
The third dam of Miss Sandman is the 1962 AJC Doncaster H. winner Te Poi, the dam of Adelaide Cup, Feehan Stakes, and Moonee Valley Stakes winner Grand Scale (Gigantic). Te Poi is a daughter of Celebrity herself a daughter of Cinna whose sons Balloch and Beau Pere proved such influential stallions in Australasia. Beau Pere was sold to America and proved a leading stallion in that country.
Besides Te Poi, Celebrity was also the dam of Illustrious the third dam of champion New Zealand racehorse and sire Vice Regal (Bismark).
Cinna was a remarkably prolific mare and one of her daughters Belle Mere (Son In Law) also had a dramatic influence on the breed. Four of her daughters, Star Of Persia, Phedre, Sugar Kandy and Marcellina continue to consistently appear in the pedigrees of Group One winners.
Star Of Persia is the 5th dam of Salinger Stakes (G1) winner Notoire. Phedre is the 4th dam of NZ 2000 Guineas (G1) winner (My) Sir Avon. Sugar Kandy is the dam of the remarkable full sisters Sweet Spray and Sweet Nymph, both winners of the New Zealand Oaks and Great Northern Derby. Sweet Spray is the dam of WRC Telegraph H. and WRC New Zealand St. Leger Stakes winner Hot Drop, while Sweet Nymph features as the 3rd dam of Melbourne Cup winner Gold And Black and the 4th dam of W.S Cox Plate winner Dulcify.
However it is Belle Mere’s daughter Marcellina who has had the most dramatic influence on the breed. She is immortalized as the 5th dam of the U.S Horse Of The Year Sunday Silence, perennially the leading Japanese sire and fast spreading his influence through the thoroughbred world.
By: Mark Smith
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