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Rothesay; O'Lonhro; Globetrotting; Dissident

• QUEENSLAND-based first season sire Rothesay got off the mark with his first winner at Toowoomba on November 22.

The Tony Gollan trained Supersay, having just her second race start after an eye-catching fourth in Brisbane on debut, made a one-act affair to record an exceptionally soft victory.

Rothesay stands at Glenlogan Park and was part of a big weekend for resident sires with their seven stallions delivering impressive winners.

Qeueensland’s five time champion sire Show A Heart got the ball rolling at Ipswich on Friday when the promising gelding Heart Of Thunder resumed from a spell with a powerful win followed by two winners by current leading sire Jet Spur.

The first of these was over the staying distance of 2150m when the Rex Lipp prepared gelding Jetting To London recorded a four lengths victory before the Tony Gollan trained Mr Jetset unleashed a finish that has him earmarked as a potential topliner with a similar winning margin.

The Ipswich treble was complimented with other victories around the country by Humanise (Red Element) and The Other Girl (Show A Heart) at Orange in NSW, Be Tolerant (Show A Heart) at Kyneton in Victoria and Turret Hill (Show A Heart) at Hawkesbury.

Saturday racing at Doomben saw a very impressive winning double by Real Saga’s progressive mare Treatmelikealady making it 3 wins from her only 3 starts this campaign for trainer Rob Heathcote, and the Jet Spur filly Tina Melina wining a QTIS event for Tony Gollan.

Falvelon opened up Sunday’s account for the farm at Goulburn when Faverock made it a hat-trick of wins from his past three appearances.

At the Sunshine State the Glenlogan Park sires’ dominance continued with victories by SomedayI’llbelucky (Bradbury’s Luck), Real Saga’s True Royal and Jet Spur’s Tanzanite.

• YOUNG stallion O’Lonhro sired his first winner when Black Magic won at Kranji in Singapore on Sunday.

O’Lonhro stands at Larneuk Stud at Euroa in Victoria.

Black Magic is one of four winners from as many to race for the Rancho Ruler mare Bent Zena.

• PROMISING winner Giramondo is proving to be a good advertisement for his sire Globetrotting.

Prepared by Caulfield trainer Colin Scott. Giramondo’s recent win at his third start attracted a lot of attention when stepping up to 1400m for the first time.

It was a significant one for Damian White Bloodstock, the owners and managers of Globetrotter.

Globetrotter, by the late Street Cry, has had just three runners to date with Giramondo his first winner.

“Globetrotter has had only small books of around 30 mares but every trainer who has them likes what they see,” Damian White said.

“He is throwing a very Street Cry type of horse and he is upgrading his mares.”

A three times winner from six starts, the imported Globetrotter won his first two at two including the G3 Breeders’ Cup Stakes and was second at G1 level.

He is a half-brother to the stakes winner Slew’s Exchange out of a daughter of the high class race and broodmare Icy Warning and boasts four strains of the prolific Almahmoud family.

• TRIPLE G1 winner Dissident will go to stud in 2015 at Newgate Farm in NSW.

The Sebring 4YO will be syndicated into 50 shares.

His three G1 wins to date have been at 1400m and 1600m in the Randwick Guineas, Memsie Stakes and Makybe Diva Stakes.

He will race through the autumn for Peter Moody before he is retired.