Noholme

Noholme
Sire	Star Kingdom (IRE)
Grandsire	Stardust
Dam	Oceana (IRE)
Damsire	Colombo
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	6 October 1956
Country	Australia
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Stanley Wootten
Owner	Gene Goff (United States)
Trainer	Jimmy D. Bray (USA)
Record	41: 12-9-2
Earnings	A$441,610 & US$40,194
Major wins
1959 Champagne Stakes 1959 Epsom Handicap 1959 Hill Stakes 1959 CB Fisher Plate 1959 Linlithgow Stakes 1959 Cox Plate 1960 All Aged Stakes
Awards
Australian Horse of the Year (1959)
Last updated on 16 September 2011

Noholme (also known as Noholme II) (1956–1983) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 1959 Australian Horse of the Year [1] and who took nearly a full second off the race record in winning the prestigious Cox Plate. In 1959 he was Australian Horse of the Year.

He was sired by Star Kingdom (IRE), the Leading sire in Australia on five occasions and sire of Sky High etc. Noholme's dam, Oceana, was a daughter of the brilliant miler Colombo (won 2,000 Guineas Stakes) from the good mare Orama by Diophon (also won the 2,000 Guineas). Noholme was a full brother to the stallions, Todman, Faringdon and Shifnal. These four stallions sired progeny that had earned over $12 million in stakes-money to the end of 1979.

The small, 15 hands 2 inches, chestnut colt was trained by Maurice McCarten in Sydney, Australia.

At two years he was unplaced in the Golden Slipper Stakes, but followed with a win in the Champagne Stakes and was ranked sixth on the Two-year old Free Handicap.

As a three-year-old Noholme defeated older horses in the Epsom Handicap. In winning the weight-for-age W. S. Cox Plate over ten furlongs (approximately 2,000 metres) he set a course-record time of 2:02. During 1959 he also won the STC Hill Stakes, VRC CB Fisher Plate and VRC Linlithgow Stakes before he won the 1960 AJC All Aged Stakes Noholme was voted. Australian Horse of the Year in 1959.

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