LEXUS ROSE OF KINGSTON STAKES
BY ANDREW LEMON
A mong Rose of Kingston’s ‘black type’ wins was Adelaide’s 1982 Queen of the South Stakes. It was appropriate – she went on to become Australian Horse of the Year. David Hains of Kingston Park Stud in Victoria bred the chestnut filly, foaled in 1978, and raced her throughout her successful career in partnership with his wife, Helen. Rose of Kingston was sired by the Italian stallion Claude from the Better Boy mare Kingston Rose. At two years she won the 1981 VRC Bloodhorse Breeders’ Plate, ran third in the 1981 Golden Slipper to Full On Aces and won Randwick’s Champagne Stakes. In springtime her trainer Bob Hoysted tried her against the colts in the Victoria Derby. She finished an unlucky fifth before backing up to win the VRC Oaks. In autumn 1982 she narrowly won Adelaide’s inaugural Australasian Oaks from Voli Dream. Placings in Sydney weight-for-age races followed before she took the AJC Derby in record time – the first victorious filly since 1944. In spring at 4 years she won the Craiglee Stakes and, at her final start, the Coongy Handicap. Sent as broodmare to the USA to the triple-crown winner Secretariat, she produced the 1990 Melbourne Cup winner, Kingston Rule.
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