"Recall of Champions" - Better Loosen Up
1990 W.S Cox Plate
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Limited Edition of 200 Worldwide
Personally Signed By Master Trainer:
David Hayes
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Framed Size: 700mm x 650mm
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Better Loosen Up returned to racing for the spring of 1990, and, following a first-up defeat, won his next seven races, the third of which was a phenomenal win in the Cox Plate in record time, where he came from 30 lengths behind at the halfway point to beat a strong field boasting horses such as Sydeston, The Phantom, Stylish Century, & Horlicks.
Following the Cox Plate, he was invited to run in Tokyo, against the world's best, in the Japan Cup, and was installed as the early favourite for the race. A notoriously lazy track worker, he fell out of favour with punters after running the slowest sectional times during track work, although trainer David Hayes was not concerned. He subsequently created history when he became the first Australian horse to win the Japan Cup, coming from the rear of the field with a barnstorming burst to win in a three way photo finish.
He returned to Australian racing in the autumn of 1991 with a smart win in the Blamey Stakes, where he overhauled Vo Rogue over the closing stages. At his next start, he defeated Vo Rogue in the Australian Cup by five-and-a-half lengths in a reversal of the previous year's defeat. Soon after, Better Loosen Up injured a tendon at the notorious crossing at Randwick Racecourse during trackwork. It was at the same crossing where another Champion horse, Shaftesbury Avenue, was tragically killed in 1994.
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