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Lord Glitters morning training at Meydan
When Elwick Stud s Lord Glitters came roaring back to form winning the G1 Jebel Hatta on Super Saturday at Meydan, it embodied why trainer David O Meara has called the ghostly son of Whipper the horse of a lifetime in interviews. Indeed, it seems the globetrotting fan favorite has been around for a lifetime–or at least two or three standard Thoroughbred careers–while competing at the top level and holding his own impressively.
A nine-time winner from 35 starts, the earner of $2,220,544 is in his sixth season of racing and has competed in 13 Group or Grade 1 affairs, winning twice and placing four times. Saturday s triumph added to an eye-catching victory in the 2019 Queen Anne Stakes (G1) and was his second win from four starts over the Dubai turf course.
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Pedigree fun facts: Helium
Although Tampa Bay Derby (G2) upsetter
Helium was not an early nominee to the Triple Crown, the Kentucky-bred has a pedigree filled with classic influences.
Helium is a grandson of
Distorted Humor, who has been prominent on the 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1) trail as the broodmare sire of Life Is Good (Pedigree Fun Facts) and Risk Taking (Pedigree Fun Facts). Unlike those contenders who are out of daughters of Distorted Humor, Helium descends from his male line, via Distorted Humor’s son
Ironicus.
An accomplished turf performer, Ironicus captured the 2015 Dixie (now renamed the Dinner Party) (G2) at Pimlico and Bernard Baruch (G2), the latter in a course-record 1:38.54 for 1 1/16 miles on Saratoga’s Mellon turf course. In 2016, Ironicus added the Fort Marcy (G3), placed second to champion Flintshire in the Manhattan (G1), and just missed to Miss Temple City in the Shadwell Turf Mile (G1). He concluded his career with a fourth to Tourist and Tepin i