Fairy King Prawn
| Fairy King Prawn | |
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| Sire | Danehill |
| Grandsire | Danzig |
| Dam | Twiglet |
| Damsire | Twig Moss |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 13 October 1995 |
| Country | Australia |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Catherine Redmond |
| Owner | Lau Sak Hong |
| Trainer |
Ricky P. F. Yiu Ivan Allan |
| Record | 26: 12-10-0 |
| Major wins | |
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Chairman's Sprint Prize (1999, 2001) Hong Kong Sprint (1999) Yasuda Kinen (2000) Happy Valley Trophy (2000) Hong Kong Stewards' Cup (2001) Bauhinia Sprint Trophy (2001) |
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| Awards | |
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Hong Kong Horse of the Year (2000, 2001) Hong Kong Most Popular Horse of the Year (2000, 2001, 2002) Hong Kong Champion Sprinter (2001) Hong Kong Champion Miler (2001) |
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Fairy King Prawn (Chinese 靚蝦王: foaled 13 October 1995) was an Australian-bred, Hong Kong-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. After being sold and exported to Hong Kong as a yearling he became one of the most successful and popular horses in his adopted territory. Equally adept as a sprinter or as a miler he won twelve of his twenty-six starts including the Chairman's Sprint Prize (twice) the Hong Kong Sprint, Hong Kong Stewards' Cup and Bauhinia Sprint Trophy. In 2000 he became the first Hong Kong horse to win a Grade One race abroad when he won the Yasuda Kinen in Japan. He won numerous awards including the title of Hong Kong Horse of the Year on two occasions. He was retired from racing in 2002 after undergoing surgery for serious leg injuries. After working for several years at a Hong Kong riding school he was sent into full retirement in New Zealand in 2011.
Fairy King Prawn is a bay gelding bred in Australia by Mrs Catherine Redmond. His sire Danehill (who died in 2003) was a highly successful breeding stallion, producing the winners of more than a thousand races, including one hundred and fifty-six at Group One/Grade I level. Among his best offspring are Duke of Marmalade, Dylan Thomas, Rock of Gibraltar, George Washington and North Light. Fairy King Prawn's dam Twiglet was a high-class Australian racehorse who won the Edward Manifold Stakes in 1990 and went on to be a successful broodmare, also producing the Salinger Stakes winner Easy Rocking. She was a descendant of Three Rock, whose other descendants included the Haydock Sprint Cup winner Green God.
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