Australian Harness Racing Awards
2008 Australian Harness Horse of the Year
Excerpt from HRA Press Release: 2nd October 2008

AHHY Chronicles

BLACKS A FAKE
2008 Australian Harness Horse of the Year

The mighty Queensland pacer Blacks A Fake, winner of the past three Inter Dominion Pacing Championships, is the Australian Harness Horse of the Year.

Blacks A Fake, trained and driven by Natalie Rasmussen, was a clear winner of the Horse of the Year title in the Australian Harness Racing Awards for the 2007/2008 Season, voted by media representatives. 

It was a memorable season for the brilliant gelding. A highlight was a record breaking win in the Group One Hunter Cup at Moonee Valley in early February, but this was bettered at the same track four weeks later when Blacks A Fake took out his third Inter Dominion final. 

It is the second successive Australian Harness Horse of the Year Award for Blacks A Fake. He has also clinched his third straight Aged Pacer and Aged Horse/Gelding Pacer of the Year awards. 

 


Blacks A Fake and Natalie Rasmussen win the
2008 Hunter Cup at Moonee Valley
photo copyright Gary Wild and used with permission

Congratulations to Natalie Rasmussen and the owners – Cheryl Rasmussen, Helen Pointer and Trevor Titcomb - of Blacks A Fake, which is now being set for a tilt at an unprecedented fourth Inter Dominion at the Gold Coast in March 2009. 

Some of the highlights of Blacks A Fake’s season, disrupted by the outbreak of equine influenza, are listed below. 

* 2008 Watpac Inter Dominion Pacing Championship $750,000 - G1 (Natalie C Rasmussen)Moonee Valley,Vic
* 2008 Hankook Tyres Hunter Cup $400,000 - G1 (Natalie C Rasmussen) Moonee Valley, Vic
* 2008 Watpac Inter Dominion Pacing Semi Final $75,000 - G2 (Natalie C Rasmussen) Moonee Valley, Vic
* 2008 Moonee Valley Cup $50,000 - G2 (Natalie C Rasmussen) Moonee Valley, Vic
* 2008 Sky Channel Free For All $20,000 - Listed (Natalie C Rasmussen) Geelong, Vic
   
 

Performances 2007/2008:     10 starts 8 wins 2 Seconds 0 Thirds $836,376  1:55.0MS

  For further information on Blacks A Fake

Good Lookin Girl has won the Aged Mare Pacer of the Year Award, Maffioso and Ananz the 3 and 2 year old categories and Sundons Gift the Trotter of the Year Award.  

Congratulations to the connections of all winners.

Geoff Want
Chairman

 

For Awards information pre-2001 refer to the Australian Harness Racing Annual

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