Kalaglow

Kalaglow was a grey horse, standing just over 16 hands high, sired by Kalamoun (winner of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains and the Prix Jacques Le Marois) out of the mare Rossitor. During his racing career he was dark in colour, but like all grey horses, he lightened as he aged. As a yearling he was sent to the Newmarket October sales where he was bought for 11,500 guineas by the bloodstock agent James Delahooke on behalf of the trainer Guy Harwood. The colt subsequently entered into the ownership of Tony Ward and was trained by Harwood at Pulborough, West Sussex. Kalaglow was ridden in most of his important races by the veteran British jockey Greville Starkey. Kalaglow's name was the result of a mistake: he was originally registered as being by Kalamoun, out of a mare named Aglow. The true identity of Kalaglow's dam was only discovered when he was four years old, long after he had been named by combining the titles of both his "parents". Both Aglow and Rossitor were chestnut fillies bred by the Someries Stud and sent into training with Geoff Smyth. The accidental switch seemed to have occurred when they were transferred from the stud farm to the racing stable in 1972 but it was a full decade before a member of staff at the Irish National Stud noticed that "Aglow"'s white markings did not match those described on her identity documents. ==Racing career==

1980: two-year-old season Kalaglow was undefeated in five races as a two-year-old in 1980. He began his career in August, when he won a maiden race at Newmarket by six lengths and later that month he won a seven furlong race at Newbury beating a field which included the future St Leger winner Cut Above. In September he won a Nursery handicap at Newbury in which he conceded weight to all his opponents and then stepped up in distance to win a mile race at Goodwood. His most significant win came on his last start when he won the Group Three Horris Hill Stakes at Newbury, beating Cut Above (who was receiving five pounds) by three-quarters of a length. At the end of the season, Kalaglow was rated eleven pounds behind the European champion Storm Bird. Three weeks later, Kalaglow contested Britain's most prestigious all-aged race, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, for which Assert, the winner of the Prix du Jockey Club and the Irish Derby started 11/10 favourite. Kalaglow, starting at odds of 13/2 produced a strong late run to win by a neck from Assert, with Glint of Gold three lengths back in third and Bikala fourth. ==Stud record==

Kalaglow was a modest success as a sire of winners during a breeding career which was mainly spent at the Brook Stud at Newmarket. His best-known offspring was the Melbourne Cup winner Jeune, but he also sired the European Group 1 winners Timarida and Sternkoenig (Grosser Preis von Berlin) as well as Red Glow who started favourite for the 1988 Epsom Derby. ==Pedigree==

{{Pedigree • Kalaglow was inbred 3 x 4 to the 2000 Guineas winner Palestine, meaning that this stallion appears in both the third and fourth generations of his pedigree. ==References==