KIRKLAND LAKE GOLD SUPER IMPOSE STAKES
BY ANDREW LEMON
N o one who witnessed Super Impose’s seemingly impossible victory in the 1991 Epsom Handicap at Randwick would readily forget it. It was pure gold. Not only was he the first horse ever to win the time-honoured Doncaster and Epsom Handicap double twice, but also he won the final race of that quartet against the odds. He carried 61 kg in a field of 20 and was last as they entered the straight. ‘Horses were everywhere in front of me,’ his jockey Darren Beadman later recalled. Beadman took an opening on the inside rail and the horse ‘just exploded’ past his opponents, to win by more than a length. New Zealand-bred, by Imposing, and trained by Lee Freedman, Super Impose enjoyed a racing career that extended from 1988 to 1992. In 74 starts he recorded 20 wins (8 Group 1s) and 32 meritorious placings, including seconds in the 1989 Australian Cup (to Vo Rogue) and Melbourne Cup (to stablemate Tawriffic) and in the 1991 Cox Plate and Mackinnon Stakes (to Let’s Elope). At eight years he crowned his career with victory by a nose over Let’s Elope in the 1992 Cox Plate, retiring soon afterwards as Australia’s leading stakes winner. This year, the race is sponsored by Kirkland Lake Gold, the provider of gold for the 2020 Lexus Melbourne Cup Trophy.
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