Research Australian champion
NZPA-AAP Melbourne The outstanding Sydney filly, Research, has been named Australia’s champion racehorse by the Victoria Racing Club. The award is judged by the secretaries of the principal thoroughbred racing clubs in each state, those of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club and Moonnee Valley Racing Club and the V.R.C. manager. Research polled 35 points to win from the New Zealand champion (Our) Poetic Prince on 26.5 points. Vo Rogue received 18 points. King’s High polled one point and Empire Rose half a point. The two-year-old Courtza, winner of the Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper Stakes double, failed to poll, as did Beau Zam.
Research, by Imperial Prince from Boucher mare Outing, is trained by Clarrie Conners at Warwick Farm and earned her award after an exciting spring campaign in Melbourne and autumn triumphs in Sydney.
She won the Group One V.R.C. Oaks (2500 m in the spring and in the autumn became the only horse to win the Group One A.J.C. Oaks (2400 m and Group One A.J.C. Derby (2400 m The races were just four days apart. The three-year-old filly’s other wins for the season were the Group One Flight Stakes (1600 m at Randwick, Group Two Wakeful Stakes (2000 m at Flemington and the Group Two Storm Queen Stakes (2000 m at Rosehill. Research is the early favourite for the Melbourne Cup and from 14 starts has recorded seven wins and five placings for $Au5t1,769,445 in stakes. Poetic Prince (which races as Our Poetic Prince in Australia) won Australia’s most prestigious weight-for-age races, the W. S. Cox Plate (2040 metres) at Moonee Valley and the Tancred International (2400 m at Rosehill. An Australian equine artist, Joycelyn Moreland, has been commissioned to paint Research and the portrait will be unveiled at a special dinner during the spring carnival. The original painting will hang in the members dining room at Flemington and framed prints will be presented to the owners.
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Press, 27 July 1989, Page 38
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