HORSE PROFILE

KINGSTON TOWN

Breeding: foaled 1976  Sire: Bletchingly (1970)   Dam: Ada Hunter (1970)  
Owner: Mr & Mrs Hains and Mr & Mrs Monsborough
Trainer: TJ Smith
Record: 41 Starts  30 Wins  5 Seconds  2 Thirds  Prize Money   $1,605,790

Kingston Town was bred by Melbourne business man David Hains. He offered him for sale at the Victorian Sales in 1978 but failed to reach the modest reserve prize for his colt. Therefore he decided to race the horse himself with his wife and Mr & Mrs Monsborough as partners. Kingston Town as trained by Tommy Smith in Sydney at Tulloch Lodge. At his first race he came in last in a field of thirteen. He also showed behaviour problems like pacing about his stall and trying to climb the walls. So David Hains and Tommy Smith decided to have him gelded and sent him for a spell, which showed an enormous improvement in his racing ability.
From 25 starts in Sydney Kingston Town won 22. He was ridden to victory by Malcolm Johnston 25 times, by Peter Cook and John Duggan twice and by Ron Quinton once. Kingston Town easily won his last race the WATC Western Mail Classic in Perth.
A re-occurring leg problem forced him to retire in 1986 despite sending him to the American trainer Charlie Whittingham in an effort to get him fit again. He was sent to the stud where he was foaled for retirement at Kingston Park on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. In March 1991 he badly injured his leg in a paddock and did not recover from surgery and had to be put down at only 14 years of age.