A multiple Stakes-winning two and three-year-old in North America, Helpisontheway is already well on his way to success with his first full Australian crop race as a two-year-old this year.
In his first season he left five foals, three of which he took to the races, two of which were successful. All five have been mentioned.
These include a top-ranked filly in Harperseven, the winner of two of the richest races on the Victorian two-year-old trotting calendar in the Group 1 $60,000 Vicbred Super Series Final and the Listed $50,000 APG Melbourne Sales Graduate Series.
The $62,200 winner Harperseven, who is ridden and trained by legendary horsemen Noel Alexander and Jayne Davies, is this season’s richest performer of her age, gait and gender.
Aldebaran Tucker, a two-year-old gelding from Helpisontheway, has won at the Victorian Provincial Championships and placed in the Listed $75,000 Nutrien Equine Classic, the Group 2 $50,000 NSW Trot Final and the NSW Foundation Trot. He was also a finalist in the Vicbred Series.
In the US, Helpisontheway is the sire of nearly $8 million winners, with 23 on the 1:55 list and 20 $100,000 earners from just four racing crops. He commands an average of $49,100 per starter and $33,850 per foal.
His shares have made just under $2 million this year, while his two- and three-year-olds made $950,000.
Helpisontheway’s legacy in America includes Indiana Sires Stakes champions Helpfirstedition 1:51.6 ($635,395), Yo Beth D 1:52 ($617,050), Eugene The Genius 1:52.4 ($488,015) and Naturdays 1:52.8 ($354,569) and the winner of the Grade 2 Old Oaken Buckette Season auxiliary 1:53.6 ($530,989).
Chapter Seven, the sire of Helpisontheway, and his world champion son Walner have outdone all others in this year’s North American Trotting Sire premierships.
Helpisontheway belongs to a well-known female line, his mother Porque 1:56.6 ($272,863) is a descendant of the USA Trotting Classic winner Plesac 1:52.4 (S2.5 million) by Hornby Michelle, from the Balanced Image horse A Go Go Lauxmont, the father of the successful colonially bred racehorse and stallion Tennotrump.
Helpisontheway’s first four mothers left a combined 25 foals for 14 winners, including 11 in 2.00.
Helpisontheway, only 10 years old, is a gentle horse with good conformation and very fertile.
Helpisontheway is doing its first Victorian season for a service charge of a modest $2,500, including GST.
Through Peter Wharton for Harnesslink
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