HESTON BLUE CHIP
AMERICAN IDEAL – SHOT TOGO BLUECHIP – CAMS CARD SHARK
2009 – BAY HORSE – 16 HANDS
$1,781,881 – 1:48.0
66 Starts – 34 Wins – 15 Placings
- 81% Winners to Starters percentage
- In Australia he has sired 124 starters for 101 winners earning over $4.5 million in stakes
- Winner of 2012 USHWA Dan Patch Award for 3YO Pacing Colts against a tough crop including A Rocknroll Dance, Sweet Lou & Thinking Out Loud
- New York 2YO Pacing Colt of the Year
- Winner of 7 New York Sire Stakes legs at 6 different tracks (Yonkers, Saratoga, Monticello, Vernon, Tioga & Buffalo)
- Winner of 3YO Breeders Crown elimination & Final
- Multiple track records including 1:48 on a mile track
- Sire of 2021 $100,000 TAB Regional Championship Winner, Eye Can Run
Heston Blue Chip is a champion son of American Ideal and is the first foal out of Shot Togo Bluechip and a full brother to millionaire Sunfire Blue Chip. His racing career saw him earn over $1.7 million with multiple stakes wins and a USTA Dan Patch Award at age three.
Heston Blue Chip’s racing career hit the ground at full speed as a two-year-old winning eleven of thirteen starts and two seconds including seven New York Sire Stakes events and the Matron Final at Dover Downs. It was his three-year-old season however, that Heston Blue Chip really stamped himself as a true force in the sport winning over one million dollars in stakes for his three-year-old season with fourteen wins from eighteen starts.
After a few New York Sire Stakes wins to kick off his sophomore campaign, Heston Blue Chip was set to take on Grand Circuit competition. After a winning performance in the Meadowlands Pace Elimination in 1:49 flat, Heston Blue Chip finished a closing fourth in one of the deepest fields in Pace history (A Rocknroll Dance, Sweet Lou, Thinking Out Loud, Pet Rock etc). He would avenge that loss later in the year with victories in the Breeders Crown elimination and final at Woodbine. He also went on to win the Progress Pace and the Matron Final in a career best time of 1:48.0 for the second straight year. Heston set four track records and won the prestigious Dan Patch award as the three-year-old colt of the year in America against a very tough crop.
Heston Blue Chip was proved to be wonderfully versatile, but his chief asset was his dazzling early speed and he has set the pace in most of his wins — at Yonkers, the Meadowlands, Vernon Downs, Woodbine, Harrah’s Philadelphia, Saratoga Raceway and Dover Downs. He was a faultless pacer who wore no boots and was considered a true gentleman of the sport.
“In his Breeders Crown win, he beat the best of the best including Sweet Lou. If that isn’t enough, he’s one of the kindest, nicest and happiest horses I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. He’s great gaited, wore no boots, and a 63” hopple,” said Linda Toscano – Trainer.
“Heston was an incredible horse with a big beautiful gait that could get around all size tracks, was a kitten to drive and could race on the front or off the pace. He was slick off the gate and loved to win races. He was just a great horse.”– Driver, Tim Tetrick.
| Year | Age | Starts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | $ 375,650 |
| 2012 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 1 | 1 | $ 1,030,008 |
| 2013 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 3 | $ 160,123 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 1 | $ 216,100 |
| $ 1,781,88 | ||||||
Race Career
At 2 – winner of of 11 races from 13 starts including –
- $177,275 Matron Stake Final
- $175,000 New York Sire Stakes Final over Saratoga’s four furlong oval
- Winner 7 New York Sire Stakes legs at 6 different tracks (Yonkers, Saratoga, Monticello, Vernon, Tioga & Buffalo)
- $22,000 Tompkins Geers Stake
- New York 2YO Pacing Colt of the Year.
At 3
Voted USA 3YO Pacing Colt of the Year over Sweet Lou and A Rocknroll Dance
Winner of 14 races from 18 starts and $1,030,000 including –
- Elimination and Final of the $555,000 Breeders Crown at Woodbine
- Elimination and Final of the $270,000 Empire Breeders Classic setting a track record with a sizzling 1:48.4 performance in the Final
- $270,000 Progress Stake elimination and Final reaching the opening quarter in a slick :25.2 – the fastest quarter ever recorded at Dover Downs
- $176,000 Matron Stakes elimination and Final where he paced the fastest mile in Dover Downs’ history winning in 1:48, the $55,000 Historic Stakes in a 1:49.2 track record
- Meadowlands Pace elimination
- Cane Pace elimination
- Four New York Sire Stakes at Yonkers, Monticello and Tioga
At 4 & 5
- 9-time Open, Preferred, FFA and Invitational Winner at The Meadowlands, Yonkers, Saratoga, Harrah’s Philadelphia and at Tioga establishing a new track record of 1:49.2
- Second in the Ben Franklin, the Roll With Joe Final, the Joe Gerrity Jr Memorial, the Kane Invitational, the Quillen Memorial elimination, etc
- He established a new track record at Tioga Downs for 4-year-old pacing stallions with a 1:49.2 victory
Proven success with mares sired by:
Art Major
Artiscape
Artsplace
Bettor’s Delight
Camluck
Dragon Again
Somebeachsomewhere
Progeny
In Australia alone, Heston Blue Chip has sired 124 starters for 101 winners with over $4.5 million in stakes and is the sire of over 20 winners in 1:55.0 and 11 earners of over $100,000 in stakes. Heston Blue Chip has an incredible 81% starters to winners percentage in Australia, without even counting the winners he has sired in the Northern Hemisphere.
TOP PERFORMERS
GIRL FROM OZ
1:52.7 – $165,000
HESTON BLUE CHIP – Girls Go Racing – Sportswriter
Winner of :
2022 G2 APG 4YO Consolation Final
2021 G3 NSW Breeders Challenge Western Region Final
2020 G2 2YO Pink Bonnet
EYE CAN RUN
1:52.8 – $168,000
HESTON BLUE CHIP – Eye Betta Fly – Bettor’s Delight
Winner of :
2021 G1 TAB Regional Metro Final
2019 G2 Pink Bonnet
SHES MISS DEVINE
1:56.2 – $138,566
HESTON BLUE CHIP – Holme Call – Holmes Hanover
Winner of :
2021 G2 Redcliffe Yearling Sales 3YO Final
2021 G3 QBRED For Life 3YO Fillies Final
2021 Redcliffe Oaks
