Best In Show, the illustrious fourth dam of the Arrowfield stud based Group 1 star and champion sire Redoute’s Choice, and ancestress of a host of other notables world wide, has a new racing descendant who looks capable of claiming a niche on the family honour board.

He is the second crop Jet Spur 2-year-old gelding Biggles, one who obviously gets his name from the schoolboy idolised fictional airman, and on Saturday he indicated a bright future at three when he overcame barrier 16 to prove too good in the 1500m juvenile at Eagle Farm.

Now winner of his last two outings, the Noel Doyle (Gold Coast) trained Biggles was bred by one of Queensland’s most knowledgeable breeding authorities, Steve Morley.

Steve is the manager of one of Australia’s premium studs, Glenlogan Park, Innisplain, Queensland and in charge of the fortunes of an elite band of seven ‘colonial’ sires, all of which, including Jet Spur, he helped acquire.

Steve bred Biggles, a $160,000 sold Gold Coast yearling, on Glenlogan Park using Jet Spur, a fleetfooted close relation by the Danehill Golden Slipper winner and champion sire Flying Spur to Zeditave, using Be Faithful, an unraced daughter of Last Tycoon. All her seven runners have won.

Be Faithful’s dam Lakelet (IRE), an unraced daughter of the Nijinsky sire Kings Lake, could only manage two winners from nine named foals, but she was a half-sister two Group1 winners, including Aviance, grandam of top milers and sires of Group1 winners Good Journey (at the new Cornerstone stud) and Spinning World (Coolmore, Hunter Valley). Good Journey and Spinning World are three-quarter brothers by Nureyev.

Minnie Hawk, the third dam of Biggles, was got by Sir Ivor from Best in Show, breeding that makes her a sister to Show Lady, grandam of Hurricane Sky and Umatilla and third dam of Redoute’s Choice and his Encosta de Lago half-brother Manhattan Rain. An AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner and Cox Plate, Golden Slipper, Champagne Stakes and Caulfield Guineas placegetter, Manhattan Rain also stands at Arrowfield. He served over one hundred mares in his first season last year.

The success of Biggles late in the racing year has been icing on the cake for the second crop of Glenlogan Park’s up and coming young Flying Spur sire Jet Spur. He is one of 14 juvenile winners in this crop, a score that is the second highest and best strike rate of the leading twenty for the age group, and one that puts him in the top ten on earnings.

Also, Jet Spur is Queensland’s leading juvenile sire and two crop sire by earnings and by winners. Nationally, he is the fourth top two crop sire by money and third by winners – the best strike rate of the top ten.

It is the second successive year that Jet Spur (2011 fee $16,500 including GST) has had double figure 2-year-old winners. He opened his sire career in 2009-10 in fine style with 12 individual winners and $876,890, stats which made him Queensland’s top juvenile sire numerically and sixth leading first crop sire nationally by money.

Jet Spur is the third of the sires currently in use at Glenlogan Park to achieve double figure juvenile winners in each of their first two crops, being preceded by Show a Heart (13 winners 2005-06 – Australia’s leading first season sire by winners and earnings – and 11 in 2006-07 – seventh nationally by earnings, the national two crop leader) and Falvelon (11 in 2006-07 and 10 in 2007-08 – Queensland’s leading juvenile sire by earnings and eighth nationally).

Queensland’s champion sire for the second successive year for 2010-11 with earnings again in excess of $4million, Show a Heart also had the rare distinction with his second crop of being New Zealand’s champion juvenile sire.

It wont be surprising if the next new sire to have runners from use at Glenlogan Park, leading Australian 2-year-old Real Saga (Tale of the Cat (USA) – Windy Kate, by Air Express (IRE), emulates the sire feats of Jet Spur, Show a Heart and Falvelon with his early 2-year-olds. Due to have first crop yearlings at 2012 sales and available this year on $15,400 (including GST), Real Saga has had good quality books of 144 and 146.