Glenlogan Park will add multiple stakes-winning sprinter Red Element to its roster of colonial-bred sires for 2010.

Red Element (Red Ransom) is a brother to Australia’s best racemare Typhoon Tracy and hails from one of the very best families in the Australian Stud Book.  He also has the looks and ability to make a significant impact in the breeding barn.

“With Red Ransom’s sons going so well at present, and his full sister Typhoon Tracy proving almost unbeatable on the track, we are obviously very excited about the future prospects of standing a horse with the depth of Red Element,” Glenlogan Park principal Jon Haseler said.

“We have been actively pursuing a suitable son of Red Ransom to add to our roster for quite some time,” Haseler continued.  “He has a pedigree better than any other standing in Australia and is a real coup for both our clients and the farm.”

Red Element’s trainer David Hayes is positive about the prospects of his former sprinter proving a successful stallion.  “I have no doubt we never really got to see this horse reach his potential on the track,” Hayes claimed.  “Things just didn’t fall our way on Group 1 day but there’s no question the horse had absolute Group 1 ability.

“Red Element was such a beautiful mover and I would think one of the most balanced and well conformed horses I have ever trained.  He is sure to let down into a magnificent looking stallion and is a super chance to make it as a sire.”

Glenlogan Park’s Manager Steve Morley is also obviously optimistic about introducing Red Element to the farm.  “He fits perfectly into our stallion roster and breeders will not find a better bred or better looking son of Red Ransom.

“I expect his progeny to explode when they hit the track and he is going to represent tremendous value for breeders in his initial years.”

Red Element will stand his initial season at $8,000 (+ gst) and will be syndicated with a limited number of shares available.

“Our stallions have consistently been among the leading return-on-investment sires in the country and I’m sure Red Element will add his name to that list,” Morley predicted.

Glenlogan Park has priced its stallion roster competitively and, with the addition of Red Element, will offer breeders up-and-coming colonially bred sons of Redoute’s Choice (Bradbury’s Luck), Flying Spur (Jet Spur) and Tale Of The Cat (Real Saga).

Champion sire Show A Heart leads the line-up at the Innisplain nursery with 166 winners of 373 races at a 59% strike rate.  He won the Australian first and second season sires’ titles and would have won a third but for E.1.

Show A Heart is hovering just outside the Top 10 on the 2009-10 Australian sires’ premiership.  The only other Star Kingdom line stallions in the Top 100 are Canny Lad (35) and Hurricane Sky (78).

RED RANSOM, who died last November, will have at least four sire sons retiring to stud this year.  

Apart from Red Element, G1 AJC Champagne Stakes winner Onemorenomore will replace his sire at Vinery this year and Queensland breeder Peter Moran will likely announce the imminent retirement of Red Ransom’s G1 BTC Cup winner Duporth.

Red Element’s stablemate All American will join Red Ransom flag-bearer Charge Forward on the Arrowfield roster.

Red Ransom’s reputation as a sire of sires will continue to grow with Charge Forward leading the way.  He got G1 winner Headway first-up while Golden Slipper favourite Solar Charged emerged from his second crop.