HORSE PROFILE

 

SUNLINE


Breeding: foaled 29.9.1995, bay filly
Owners: T J McKee, T A Green, H M Lusty
Trainer: Trevor McKee    Jockeys: Greg Childs, Larry Cassidy, Peter Johnson

Record: 35 Starts  25 Wins  2 Seconds  Prize Money $11,201,607

Sunline was foaled on 29 September 1995 at Pleasanton Stud near Cambridge, New Zealand. She was a big strong filly. Her sire was the son of Green Desert in Desert Sun and her dam the Western Symphony mare Songline. Her breeders leased her to trainer Trevor McKee at Takanini, South Auckland.
Sunline, racing under the McKee stable colours, had three starts in New Zealand as a juvenile for three easy wins. At two she won the Auckland Breeder's Stakes at Ruakaka over 1200m. Sunline had a determination to win and when not competing liked to show her handlers who the boss is. She was a winner of 13 group one races and many consider her the greatest mare to race in Australia since Wakeful.

Achievements:
- Mercedes New Zealand Horse of the Year, 2000-01, for the third year in succession
- Mercedes Champion Sprinter/Miler
- Mercedes Champion WFA Performer
- Champion Australian Racehorse of the Year, 2000-01, for the second year in succession
- Champion Australian Filly/Mare, 2000-01, second year
- Champion Australian Middle Distance Performer, 2000-01, second year
- first horse since Kingston Town in 1982 to defend Cox Plate title (1999 and 2000)
- the first horse in the southern hemisphere to accumulate $6,334,691 in prize money after her second Cox Plate win
- equalled the record winning margin of 7 lengths set in 1979 by Dulcify
- first horse to be inducted into the Hall of Fame while still racing

 

DATE

PLACE

RACE

GROUP

DISTANCE

CLUB

ACTUAL $


At Two Years
10.5.98 won 2yo Maiden SW 1100 Paeroa $2,302
30.5.98 won 2yo Handicap Handicap 1200 Ellerslie $11,069
9.7.98 won Breeder's Stakes SW 1200 Ruak $11,069
At Three Years
22.8.98 won 3yo Fillies SW 1200 Hastings $11,069
5.9.98 won Furious Stakes (G3) SW 1400 AJC $68,060
19.9.98 won Tea Rose Stakes (G2) SW 1500 STC $103,625
3.10.98 won Flight Stakes (G1) SW 1600 AJC $240,160
1.2.99 won 3yo Handicap Handicap 1200 Ellerslie $5,039
20.2.99 2nd Armanasco Stakes (G3) SW 1600 VATC $80,000
6.3.99 won A V Kewney Stakes (G2) SW 1600 VRC $326,000
20.3.99 won Moonee Valley Oaks (G3) SW 2040 MVRC $658,000
3.4.99 won Doncaster Handicap (G1) SW 1600 AJC $682,460
17.4.99 5th Queen Elizabeth Stks (G1) SWFA 2000 AJC $10,000
At Four Years
21.8.99 won Warwick Stakes (G2) SWFA 1400 AJC $103,460
11.9.99 2nd Theo Marks (G2) Quality Handicap 1300 STC $27,000
25.9.99 2nd George Main (G1) SWFA 1600 AJC $63,000
2.10.99 4th Epsom Handicap (G1) Handicap 1600 AJC $24,000
23.10.99 won Cox Plate (G1) SWFA 2040 MVRC $1,086,000
20.11.99 won Breeder's (G2) SWFA 1400 Pukekoe $32,303
7.12.99 7th Hong Kong Cup (G1) SWFA 2000 Sha Tin $0
11.3.00 won Appollo Stakes (G2) SWFA 1400 AJC $103,460
1.4.00 won Coolmore Classic (G1) Quality Handicap 1500 STC $347,055
22.4.00 2nd Doncaster Handicap (G1) Handicap 1600 AJC $432,000
29.4.00 won All Aged Stakes (G1) SWFA 1600 AJC $274,460
At Five Years
19.8.00 won Manikato Stakes (G1) SWFA 1200 MVRC $133,000
3.9.00 won Memsie Stakes (G2) SWFA 1400 VATC $130,600
16.9.00 won Feehan Stakes (G2) SWFA 1600 MVRC $139,500
7.10.00 2nd Turnbull Stakes (G2) SWP 2000 VRC $50,000
28.10.00 won Cox Plate (G1) SWFA 2040 MVRC $1,180,000
25.11.00 won TB Stakes (G2) SWFA 1400 Pukekoe $29,755
17.12.00 won Hong Kong Mile (G1) SWFA 1600 Sha Tin $1,103,582
10.2.01 won Waikato Draught (G1) SWFA 1400 Te Rapa $49,104
3.3.01 won Appollo Stakes (G2) SWFA 1400 AJC $103,400
24.3.01 3rd Dubai Duty Free (G2) SWFA 1777 Dubai $352,081
21.4.01 3rd All Aged Stakes (G1) SWFA 1600 AJC $32,000


The $3 million Carlton Draught Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Saturday 26 October 2002 was Sunline's final start.