Lion Heart broke new ground when his colt Home Straight won at Ovrevoll in Norway on Friday.  The Coolmore stallion has shuttled from Kentucky to Australia since 2005 and his individual winner tally climbed past 130 after his first score in Scandinavia.

That’s an exceptional effort from just one southern and two northern crops to race and suggests Lion Heart will develop into a prolific sire of winners in years to come.

Home Straight (2c Lion Heart – Lone Peak by Wild Rush) is raced by Nick Bentley and had been placed at Ovrevoll and Taby in August and September.  He was a US$50,000 buy from the Gainsborough draft at the 2008 Keeneland September yearling sale and is from an unraced half-sister to Jungle Prince (Sir Cat), a G3 winner of the Turf Express Hcp at Hollywood.

Home Straight’s victory capped off a great month for Lion Heart.  He averaged nearly a winner a day after Catallion started the winning streak at Doomben on October 31.

Lion Heart’s total also included the black-type winners:

Thats Whatshesaid (2f Lion Heart-Strong Girl by Boundary) was a Listed winner of the Showtime Deb Stakes at Hawthorne (Oct 31).

Mayhaw (3c Lion Heart-Mary Sloan by Woodman) blitzed her older rivals by five lengths in the Listed Lookout Stakes at Delta Downs (Nov 6).

Carphonic (3f Lion Heart-Carsomatic, by Carson City) made it three black-type notches in the space of a fortnight when a three length winner of the Listed Joe O’Farrell Juvenile at Calder (Nov 14).

Lion Heart had already sired two G2 winners from his first Kentucky crop.  Azul Leon won the 2008 Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar on protest and Soul Warrior defeated Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird in the 2009 West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer Park.

A son of Tale Of The Cat and a G1 winner of the Hollywood Futurity and Haskell Invitational, Lion Heart has made an encouraging start with his first Australian bred crop.  There are 19 individual winners to date headed by Brisbane stakes winner Double Heart.  

Lion Heart is standing for an $11,000 fee at Coolmore this year.

Lion’s share of winners for Coolmore shuttler:

Doomben…31/10
CATALLION 3g Lion Heart – Miss Avion

Charles Town…31/10
LION HEART VICTORY 3g Lion Heart – Victory Moment

Hawthorne…31/10
LR-THATS WHATSHESAID  2f Lion Heart–Strong Girl

Mountaineer…31/10
LEXY MAY BLESSING 3f  Lion Heart – Celestial Crown

Hawthorne…1/11
MOONLIGHT ESCAPADE 3f Lion Heart – Mooncola

Finger Lakes…5/11
AOJA 3g Lion Heart – Mandy Jud

Southwell…6/11
ANGIE’S NAP (USA) 2f Lion Heart – Magick Top

Kranji…6/11
A-POWER (Aus) 3g Lion Heart-Flapper

Aqueduct…6/11
BLAH BLAH BLAH 3f Lion Heart – Bugaloo

Delta Downs…6/11
LR-MAYHAW 3f Lion Heart – Mary Sloan

Laurel…7/11
EDGEWATER 3g Lion Heart – Life In Seattle
DARCI 3f Lion Heart – Teerrific Sue

Philadelphia…7/11
ALL HEART 3g Lion Heart – Impact Now

Penn National…10/11
LION KINGDOM 3g Lion Heart – Try N Sue

Doomben…14/11
CATALLION 3g Lion Heart – Miss Avion

Calder…14/11
LR-CARPHONIC  2f Lion Heart–Carsomatic

Mornington…14/11
LION DIVINE 3c Lion Heart – Queen The Divine

Mountaineer…15/11
CARDIOLOGIST 3g Lion Heart – Jolie Boutique

Aqueduct…18/11
GINO GREEN 3g Lion Heart – Wings of the Storm

Calder…19/11
LIONESS HEART  3f  Lion Heart–Glowing Colors

Hawthorne…19/11
A. J.’S LOVE  3f  Lion Heart–Bella Bella Bella

Remington…20/11
SOPHIE’S MEATBALL  3f Lion Heart–See Here

Beulah…24/11
GENERAL LAFAYETTE 3g Lion Heart – Eggs Binnedict

Calder…27/11
AMERIHEART 3c Lion Heart – Midway Squall

Penn National…27/11
REINE DES COEURS 3f Lion Heart – Queen Of Millbrook

Woodbine…27/11
GRAN PATRON 3c Lion Heart – Prosper

Øvrevoll (Norway)…27/11
HOME STRAIGHT (USA)  2c  Lion Heart – Lone Peak

Ellerslie…28/11
LIGHTNING LEO  3c Lion Heart – Thursday Island

Mountaineer…29/11
TRANQUIL LIONESS 3f Lion Heart – Calming