Blacks A Fake
| Blacks A Fake | ||
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| Sire: | Fake Left (USA) | |
| Dam: | Colada Hanover | |
| Damsire: | Vanston Hanover (USA) | |
| Sex: | Gelding | |
| Foaled: | 7 October 2000 | |
| Country: | Australia | |
| Colour: | Brown | |
| Breeder: | R H Pointer Nominees P/L | |
| Owner: | C M Rasmussen, T L Titcomb & C H Pointer | |
| Trainer/Driver: | Natalie Rasmussen | |
| Record: | 105:72-19-5 | |
| Fastest Winning Mile Rate: | At 2: 1:58.7 At 3: 1:58.0 Aged: 1:53.7 |
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| Prizemoney: | A$4,575,438 | |
| Group One Wins | ||
| 2006 2006 2006 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2010 |
Inter Dominion Championships M H Treuer Memorial Victoria Cup Inter Dominion Championships A G Hunter Cup Inter Dominion Championships Queensland Pacing Championship Trans-Tasman Winter Cup Queensland Pacing Championship Inter Dominion Championships |
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Blacks A Fake is a brown Standardbred gelding that won the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 Inter Dominion Championships, making him the only four-time winner of Australasia's premier harness race. He finished second, beaten by a long neck, in the 2009 Inter Dominion to Mr Feelgood (USA). His other achievements include wins in the Victoria Cup and Hunter Cup and three Australian Horse of the Year titles. He is Australasia's highest earning Standardbred, and (excluding exchange-rate considerations) was the world's highest earning pacer.
Foaled on 7 October 2000, Blacks A Fake is a son of the Little Brown Jug winner and a Leading Australian Sire, Fake Left (USA), out of Colada Hanover by Vanston Hanover. Blacks A Fake was inbred to the million dollar winner Albatross in the third generation (3x3).
He was trained and driven by Natalie Rasmussen throughout his entire career. When Blacks a Fake suffered a major injury in 2003, Rasmussen nursed him back to health. Rasmussen also overcame crippling injuries in the early 2000s herself when it was thought that she would never be able to drive pacers again. She is the first woman in Australia to have trained and driven an Inter Dominion winner and the first Queenslander to win four.
Blacks A Fake began racing as a late two-year-old in August 2003. He won 10 of his 12 starts as a two- and three-year-old, culminating with a win in the Qbred Triad Final. However, a hock injury halted his career, and he was away from racing for 17 months.
Blacks A Fake returned to the track as a five-year-old in October 2005 and won his next six starts. A four-race campaign in Victoria that included a win and two seconds set him up for a tilt at the Inter Dominion series in Hobart during March and April 2006. Wins in the first and last rounds of heats in the three-round series saw him start a short-priced favourite in the Final, which was run for an Australasian record stake of $1.5 million. He gained the lead early on in the Final and claimed his first Inter Dominion title. Returning for a winter campaign in Brisbane after his Inter Dominion success, he won two out of three races, including the Winter Cup.
An injury-hampered start to Blacks A Fake's six-year-old season saw him return in October with two minor race wins, which were followed by a second in the Miracle Mile at Harold Park. Group One wins in the Treuer Memorial and the Victoria Cup preceded an attempt at a second Inter Dominion, for which the Final was held at Globe Derby Park, Adelaide in January. Fifth and second placings in the first two heats were followed by a win in the final heat, which saw Blacks A Fake start favourite in the Final for the second straight year. He won the race, becoming one of the few horses to win back-to-back Inter Dominions. His season ended with another winter campaign, which yielded four wins including a second Winter Cup. He was crowned Australian Horse of the Year for the season.
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