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Kaoru Star

 
   

Kaoru

LUSKIN STAR

chestnut colt 1974

 
   

Idomeneo

 

Promising

 
   

Modern Touch

Trainer:   Max Lees                     Jockey:   John Wade

At the Summer Sales of 1975, a yearling colt with a turned out foreleg was passed in for $7,000.  Trainer Max Lees had noticed the colt and made an offer to the owner for $8,000 for client John Balcomb.  The "colt from the coalmines" became the first since Baguette to win the Two Year old Triple Crown - the Golden Slipper, AJC Sires' Produce Stakes and AJC Champagne Stakes.  His Slipper win is still ranked by many as the greatest - he set a new record of 1:10.0 and won by seven lengths.   He was sold as a three year old to Swettenham Stud and was trained by Bart Cummings for whom he won five races including VATC Caulfield Guineas, AJC Expressway Stakes and AJC The Galaxy.   He raced 17 times for 13 wins, 3 seconds and 1 third. and went on to stand as a sire at Newhaven Park Stud.

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