Perusal of photographs of Zeditave, the first class Newhaven Park sire who died this month at 24, and exciting young Queensland sire Jet Spur, suggests that they could be transposed and most would not note the difference.
They are both, handsome, good sized, lengthy chestnuts with good heads, shoulders and hindquarters, qualities that appear to have flowed fromlook alike maternal ancestors, Crowned Prince and his sire Raise a Native, a speed influence who left a huge legacy to world breeding through another son, Mr. Prospector.
A champion European 2-year-old, Crowned Prince appeared here briefly in the late1970s and included in his offspring Summoned, an unraced queen of Australian broodmares. She included five Group race winners among her eleven winning foals, headed by superstar Zeditave, a son of the good Showdown sprinter The Judge. Zeditave won 14 races – nine at two - from 1000m to 1600m, including five Group1s, in 17 outings and has gone on to be represented to date by over 450 winners of 1620 races (86 stakes) and $36million.
Zeditave’s connection with Jet Spur, one of the spectacular collection of Aussies in the stallion yards at the Jon Haseler guided Glenlogan Park stud, Innisplain, Queensland, flows through his sister True Verdict, producer of seven winners. One of them, Jet Spur’s dam Verocative, is a Bletchingly MRC Thoroughbred Club Stakes winner and AJC Light Fingers Stakes second.
The best of her five winners has been Jet Spur, a Flying Spur colt whose ten outings included three sprint stakes wins, the MRC Caulfield Sprint, VRC Rory’s Jester Stakes and STC Heritage Stakes. He finished second in the AJC Brian Crowley Stakes, third in the Canberra Black Opal and fourth in the STC Silver Slipper.
Jet Spur has got off to an impressive start as a sire, supplying through to this week in his first juvenile crop 13 winners, including one overseas, and nine others placed. On the Australian juvenile earnings list he is above on earnings longer established prestigious sires Encosta de Lago, Invincible Spirit, Danehill Dancer, Choisir, Exceed and Excel and Lonhro.
Jet Spur’s early success makes him the third of the current Glenlogan Park sires to have ten or more first crop 2-year-old winners, the others being Show a Heart and Falvelon, two of Queensland’s leading sires. Falvelon is another descendant of Summoned, being by her illfated sprinting son Alannon. This half-brother to Zeditave died after only one stud season, use at Glenlogan Park.