Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Promising three-year-old filly Allaglow is bred to be a good winner, being closely related to former brilliant pacing filly and mare Amongst Royalty, who amassed $570,820 in stakes from 23 wins and 27 placings from 86 starts.
Allaglow was a $19.30 chance from barrier two on the back line in the 2130m Cowden Established 1972 Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night when she was driven by Shannon Suvaljko and enjoyed an ideal passage in the one-wide line before dashing to the front 450m from home and winning by a metre from $6 chance Castella Dellacqua.
Bred and owned by Bob Fowler, Allaglow is trained by Katja Warwick, who is enjoying a holiday in Penang with her husband Trevor. Mrs Warwick has prepared Allaglow for her past seven starts for two wins and a second placing, taking the filly’s record to 26 starts for five wins and four placings for earnings of $39,211.
Allaglow is by Fly Like An Eagle and is the fifth foal out of Artistic Glow, a younger half-sister to Amongst Royalty, whose most notable victories were in the Group 1 Bathurst Gold Tiara in March 2006 and the Group 1 APG final for two-year-old fillies at Ballarat a month later.
Zephyra, the $2.15 favourite in Friday night’s race, had no luck and was forced to cover a lot of extra ground before finishing sixth.