Hittite Glory

Hittite Glory
Sire	Habitat
Grandsire	Sir Gaylord
Dam	Hazy Idea
Damsire	Hethersett
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	18 April 1973
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Cleaboy Farms Co
Owner	Ravi Tikkoo
Trainer	Scobie Breasley
Record	13:3-0-1
Major wins
Flying Childers Stakes (1975) Middle Park Stakes (1975)
Awards
Timeform rating 125 (1975), 119 (1976)

Hittite Glory (18 April 1973 – after 1988) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for his 100/1 success in the 1975 Flying Childers Stakes. As a two-year-old, he won one of his first four races before recording his upset win in the Flying Childers and then won a second major prize when taking the Middle Park Stakes. He was rated the second best colt of his generation in Britain. In the following year he was trained in France but failed to win in six races. In all, he won three of his thirteen races between June 1975 and September 1976. He stood as a breeding stallion in Europe and Japan but has not a success.

Hittite Glory was a "powerful, round-bodied, muscular and most impressive looking" bay horse with no white markings bred in England by Cleaboy Farms. He was sired by Habitat, an American-bred, British-raced miler who became one of the leading European stallions of the 1970s and 1980s. His other progeny included Habibti, Flying Water, Marwell, Rose Bowl and Steinlen and he was the British Champion broodmare sire on three occasions. Hittite Glory was the second foal of his dam Hazy Idea, a high-class racemare (rated 118 by Timeform) who won the Crookham Stakes in 1969 and the March Stakes in 1970. Both Hazy Idea's sire Hethersett and dam Won't Linger second generation descendants of the broodmare Netherton Maid.

As a yearling Hittite Glory was offered for sale and bought for 30,000 guineas by the Indian shipping magnate Ravi Tikkoo. The colt was sent into training with Scobie Breasley at the South Hatch stable near Epsom.

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