Emerging trotting sire Helpisontheway for Balmain Lodge

Helpisontheway (Tr 3, 1:51.8 – $610,446), the first son of former world champion Chapter Seven, the leading North American trotting sire for three of the last four years, to be accessible to Australian and New Zealand breeders, is available via frozen semen this season from the Balmain Lodge stud, Tatura, Victoria, of well known breeders Geoff and Lorraine Barnes. 

A multiple Stakes-winning two and three-year-old in North America, Helpisontheway is already well on the way to proving a success with his first full Australian crop racing as two-year-olds this year. 

In his first season he left five foals, and of these he had three to the races, and two have been successful. All five have been named. 

They include a top ranking 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 winner of $62,200, Harperseven, who is raced and trained by legendary horsepeople Noel Alexander and Jayne Davies, is the richest performer of her age, gait and sex this season. 

Aldebaran Tucker, a two-year-old gelding by Helpisontheway, has won at the Victorian provincials and been 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 USA, Helpisontheway is the sire of the winners of almost $US8 million with 23 in the 1:55 list and 20 $100,000 earners from just four racing crops. He boasts an average of $49,100 per starter and $33,850 per foal. 

His stock have earned just shy of $US2 million this year with his two and three-year-olds accounting for $US950,000. 

Among the leading performers left by Helpisontheway in America are the 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 Grade 2 Old Oaken Buckette winner Helpoftheseason 1:53.6 ($530,989). 

Chapter Seven, the sire of Helpisontheway, and his world champion son Walner have outdistanced all others on this year’s North American trotting sires’ premierships. 

Helpisontheway belongs to a noted female line, his dam Porque 1:56.6 ($272,863) being by the USA Trotting Classic winner Plesac 1:52.4 (S2.5 million) from Hornby Michelle, by the Balanced Image horse A Go Go Lauxmont, the sire of the successful colonial bred racehorse and stallion Tennotrump. 

The first four dams of Helpisontheway have left 25 foals between them for 14 winners including 11 in 2:00. 

Only a 10 year-old, Helpisontheway is a fine natured horse of good conformation and is very fertile. 

Helpisontheway is standing his initial Victorian season for a service fee of a modest $2,500 including GST. 

by Peter Wharton for Harnesslink