Glorious Song (1976-2003) was a Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Champion in Canada and the United States and who became an important broodmare. Bred by the prominent horseman E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, she was sired by Halo and out of the mare Ballade who would also produce U.S. Champion Devil's Bag.
Part of Windfields' annual consignment of yearlings to the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society sale at Wo...
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Glorious Song (1976-2003) was a Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Champion in Canada and the United States and who became an important broodmare. Bred by the prominent horseman E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, she was sired by Halo and out of the mare Ballade who would also produce U.S. Champion Devil's Bag.
Part of Windfields' annual consignment of yearlings to the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society sale at Woodbine Racetrack, Glorious Song was purchased for $36,000 by local businessman Frank Stronach who at the time was just beginning to build a very successful Thoroughbred racing stable.
Under trainer Fred H. Loschke, at age two Glorious Song won her only start in impressive fashion that prompted Texas businessman, Nelson Bunker Hunt to purchase a half-interest in her. In 1979 the three-year-old filly won five significant stakes races at Woodbine Racetrack and the following year she was never out of the money in all of her eleven starts. The...
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