One to Watch – Moruya

Tara Madgwick - Monday January 8
I thought we had the biggest Snitzel in Australia at Daybreak Farm, but after seeing this horse win at Moruya on Monday, a new contender has emerged.

I had to go to town this afternoon and when I walked in the door my son Jack said to me, "Quick, Mum come and look at this horse, it's about to race and it's as big as Shazzar."

'Shazzar', is El Shazzar, the big grey jumper my son is riding and featured in this story here, he's 17.3 hands worth of Snitzel.

The horse that caught Jack's eye is chestnut, rather than grey and is named Kopi Luwak.

Kopi Luwak - Racing NSWA giant of a beast, this lightly raced five year-old dwarfed the clerk of the course horse and the opposition. He had raced only once before and that was at Canterbury in December 2015 when he finished a good second.

Trainer Danny Williams was confident of a good showing for Kopi Luwak at his first run since then and punters duly cheered him home when he surged to the line from back in the field to win the $40,000 maiden over 1010 metres by a length.

Kopi Luwak is the horse that unloaded Williams in a freak accident in 2015 that saw the trainer break his pelvis in a devastating injury that required a long period of hospitalization.

All is forgiven now though, with Kopi Luwak recovering from a tendon injury to target the upcoming lucrative Country Championships series.

Not offered at auction, Kopi Luwak is the second winner for the now retired Lady Breakfast, a winner of eight races, whose immediate family features no Black Type performers whatsoever until you get back to her third dam, who is Group III AJC Surround Stakes winner Hanalei.

Snitzel is one champion sire whose progeny really do come in all shapes and sizes!

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