Super Impose

Super Impose
Super Impose at the Night of Champions in 2005
Sire	Imposing (AUS)
Grandsire	Todman
Dam	Pheroz Fancy
Damsire	Taipan (USA)
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	1984
Country	New Zealand
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	John G. B. Grant (Meadowland Stud)
Owner	Chris Biggins, G. Longbottom, J. Journeaux, Mrs R. Moffat, J. Newton, K. Fawcett
Trainer	Lee Freedman
Record	74: 20-24-8
Earnings	A$5,659,358
Major wins
Eclipse Stakes (1988) Summer Cup (1988) Carlyon Cup (1989) Turnbull Stakes (1989) Doncaster Handicap (1990, 1991) Epsom Handicap (1990, 1991) Warwick Stakes (1990, 1991) Chester Manifold Stakes (1991) Hill Stakes (1991) Ranvet Stakes (1991) Chipping Norton Stakes (1991, 1992) Canberra Cup (1992) Cox Plate (1992)
Honours
Australian Racing Hall of Fame (2007) Super Impose Bar at Randwick Racecourse
Last updated on 6 November 2009

Super Impose (5 October 1984 – 23 March 2007) was a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In a career spanning 74 starts, he won eight Group One races and a then Australasian record $5.6 million in prize money. Trained throughout his career by Lee Freedman and ridden in his Group One wins by Bruce Compton (once), Darren Gauci (once), Darren Beadman (five times), and Greg Hall (once), Super Impose won the AJC Epsom and Doncaster Handicaps two years in a row, in 1990 and 1991, and won the Cox Plate at his penultimate start as an eight-year-old in 1992.

Foaled in New Zealand, Super Impose was a son of the multiple Group One winner Imposing (Todman-Hialeah), out of the unraced mare Pheroz Fancy (Taipan II-Pheroz Jewel). Pheroz Jewel was a stakeswinning mare in New Zealand who defeated Grey Way, while Todman was an Australian racehorse who won the inaugural Golden Slipper in 1957. Super Impose, via Todman and Ritmar (dam of Taipan), had Star Kingdom blood on both sides of his pedigree. The imported Irish stallion was a dominant influence on Australian racing before the preponderance of Northern Dancer-line stallions, such as Danehill, in the 1990s. Taipan, via his sire Bold Ruler, also introduced powerful American-bred descendants of Nearco into the pedigree. Super Impose descended from an old colonial New Zealand family, (C-23), that had not produced many notable winners until the last few decades.