Sunline
| Sunline | |
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| Sire | Desert Sun (GB) |
| Grandsire | Green Desert (USA) |
| Dam | Songline |
| Damsire | Western Symphony (USA) |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1995 |
| Died | 2009 |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Susan Archer and Michael Martin |
| Owner | Trevor McKee, Thayne Green, Helen Lusty |
| Trainer | Trevor McKee |
| Record | 48: 32-9-3 |
| Earnings | A$11,351,607 |
| Major wins | |
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Flight Stakes (1998) Cox Plate (1999 & 2000) Doncaster Handicap (1999 & 2002) All Aged Stakes (2000 & 2002) Coolmore Classic (2000 & 2002) Waikato Sprint (2001 & 2002) Hong Kong Mile (2000) Manikato Stakes (2000) |
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| Awards | |
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New Zealand Horse of the Year (1999-2002) Australian Middle Distance Champion (2000, 2001) Australian Horse of the Year (2000, 2001, 2002) Timeform rating: 129 |
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| Honours | |
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Australian Racing Hall of Fame New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame (2006) |
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| Last updated on 1 May 2009 | |
Sunline (1995–2009) was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn A$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive W.S. Cox Plates (2,040m), the richest Weight for Age (WFA) race in Australia. She also twice won the toughest mile race in Australia, the Doncaster Handicap, once as a three-year-old and then again as a six-year-old. She was named New Zealand Horse of the Year four times and is also the only horse ever to win the Australian Horse of the Year championship three times. The only horse besides Sunline to win as many major races in both Australia and New Zealand was Gloaming, who raced around 1915.
Sunline recorded 13 wins from her 25 starts in Group One races (a winning strike-rate of 52%), while Makybe Diva, with whom she is often compared, won seven of her 14 (a winning strike-rate of 50%). Greg Childs, the jockey who rode Sunline in 33 of her races, said she deserved to bracketed with the Diva as the best racemares of the modern era. Makybe Diva was an outstanding stayer and Sunline was a champion middle distance horse.
Sunline led in most of her races, and sometimes settled just behind the leader; she was difficult to pass. Sunline was an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame, along with Carbine, Gloaming, Kindergarten and Phar Lap.
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