Victorian based E L Titan leads USA two-year-old trotting sires’ list

The royally bred Muscle Hill horse E L Titan Tr 1:51.4 ($726,344), who is standing this season at Goulburn Valley Equine under the banner of Haras Des Trotteurs, is currently the leading percentage sire of two-year-old trotters in North America and one of the leading harness racing sires in the very competitive New Year Sires Stake program.

From a crop of 18 two-year-old foals, he has been represented by 11 starters and they have earned $419,144 at an average of $23,286 per foal, ahead of the champion sires Chapter Seven, Walner, Father Patrick, Muscle Hill, Muscle Mass and Tactical Landing.

His current crop is headed up by the exciting two-year-old colt Titan’s Mischief 1:55.4 ($198,800), the second richest for his age, gait and sex this year and the commanding winner of the $108,300 New York Sires Stake at Batavia Downs recently.

Overall, E L Titan, who stood alongside Chapter Seven at the prestige Blue Chip Farms in New York, has left the winners of $15.2 million at an amazing average of $72,000 per starter and $58,000 per foal!

He has sired 109 in the 2:00 list, 30 in 1:55 and 48 $100,000 earners.

E L Titan was a top racehorse himself, winning more than $700,000. As a two-year-old he won divisions of the International Stallion Stakes (beating Trixton) and Madison County Trot and finished second in a division of the Champlain Stakes.

At three he won the Carl Erskine Memorial and Galt Memorial and was runner-up to Father Patrick after sitting parked in the $500,000 Breeders Crown Final, while at four he annexed the $100,000 Sebastian K Invitational in which he set his record of 1:51.4.

E L Titan is a most interestingly bred horse. He is a son of supersire Muscle Hill, the greatest of a string of champions left by the champion American sire Muscles Yankee. Sons of Muscle Hill are now coming to the forefront as sires in both America and Australasia.

On his dam’s side E L Titan comes from a family which has made a real impact on the American breeding scene. Courtney Hall, the dam of E L Titan, has left eight in 1:55 and five $200,000 earners including the Grade 1 Valley Victory winner El Ideal 1:52.2 ($830,857), Appomattox 1:52.4 ($619,895) and E L Rocket, a successful sire in Canada.

Furthermore, Courtney Hall is a sister to the USA 2YO and 3YO Trotting Filly of the Year Cameron Hall ($1.8 million) and to the dam of the Breeders Crown champion and highly influential sire Cantab Hall ($1.4 million). 

E L Titan’s first ‘down under’ crop are weanlings. Two of his stock were offered at the NZB National Weanling Sale at Karaka, New Zealand in June, with a colt fetching the third highest price for a trotter at $27,000.

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink