Jockey Berkley R. Packer aboard Heza Prospect at Canterbury Park.

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Q-RACING JOURNAL—AUGUST 12, 2016—The North Dakota-bred gelding Heza Prospect fought to a nose victory in Sunday’s $54,400 North Central QHRA Futurity at Canterbury Park.

It is the first stakes win for the young gelding, who has collected two wins in five starts and earnings of $37,583. In July, he contested PYC Jess Bite Mydust’s $165,600 Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity.

The gelding races for leasee Magnificent 7 Partnership, managed by his owner, 20-year breeder Leon Glasser of Mandan, North Dakota. He was bred by Karen Glasser. The Glassers have also bred the likes of stakes winners Tinys First Affair, Lethal Effort, Smoke In Her Eyes and Katies Lookin Fine.

They also bred Little Love Affair, the dam of Heza Prospect.

Heza Prospect is by second-year sire Prospect To The Top, an 8-year-old son of Coronas Prospect and one of the toughest racehorses in recent memory.

Owned by Joel Tavarez, Prospect To The Top raced in 26 races at the top level for four years, from contesting the All American Futurity (G1) as a freshman through a career that included eight stakes victories (including two Grade 1s), earnings of $992,670, an honor as 2012 champion aged stallion and 2011 champion 3-year-old colt, and a nod as an AQHA Supreme Race Horse.

From 21 starters, he has sired nine winners, including previous Pedigree Analysis subject Dicecapades, and stakes winner Paloma Blanca B. He stands at Delta Equine Center in Vinton, Louisiana.

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