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RIP Takeover Target

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HotJulesHotJules    229 posts
edited June 2015 East Coast Racing
What a bloody Champ.

http://www.racenet.com.au/news/112809/Vale-–-Takeover-Target-'the-people's-champ'
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  • JayJayJayJay    8,623 posts
    I will never forget the look on the faces of the landed gentry of British Racing Royalty as cab driver Joe, resplendent in his hired top hat and tails, and his patched up $1400 reject with a bung leg from Queanbeyan, cleaned them up at Royal Ascot. He was some horse old Takeover Target and the dream just went on and on. Any place, anytime...he raced as true and honest as any sprinter I've seen and Joe must have regularly pinched himself. Australia's Seabiscuit - that win over Apache Cat, Racing to win and co in the TJ Smith as a 9 year old was remarkable. A great racing story.

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  • LuckyLongshotsLuckyLongshots    4,270 posts
    A few photos from Takeover Target's Perth visit in 2008 and 2009

    Winterbottom Stakes Day 2008
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    AJ Scahill Day 2008
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    Winterbottom Stakes Day 2009 (Exhibition Gallop)
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  • BobbyDavisBobbyDavis    916 posts
    Good pics. Was the ride of a lifetime for Jay Ford too.
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  • SPUDLEYSPUDLEY    1,584 posts
    Horse stories like his gives all of us hope that maybe one day we too can find our own little champ RIP TT you gave us a good ride .

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  • everreadyeverready    282 posts
    Story goes when joe bought TT home not long after his Mrs said enough is enough im outa here :D she missed out on the ride of her life ....RIP TT

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  • Thoroly_BreadThoroly_Bread    2,348 posts
    Imagine what joe said in the mounting yard "farked if I know what I'm doing but he's fast and will win" what a dream story I always tell my non racing friends about this story and they look at me in disbelief!!

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  • Thoroly_BreadThoroly_Bread    2,348 posts
    ever ready said:

    Story goes when joe bought TT home not long after his Mrs said enough is enough im outa here :D she missed out on the ride of her life ....RIP TT

    That's the icing on top for Joe =)) got a champion race horse and got rid of the mrs =))
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  • JayJayJayJay    8,623 posts
    How many TT's have there been that, through injury or the like, got "lost" in big stables ....old Joe might not have known too much but the horse got "one on one" attention that he would never have received in a big stable, a bond formed and we know the result. There are numerous "one horse with not terribly acclaimed trainer" stories from the past ...would Vo Rogue be in that category?...The Cleaner certainly is and Mt Eden certainly was....that it is likely to keep happening and that is the fairy tale that keeps dreamers like me intrigued ....Romantic clap trap I know but good romantic claptrap that is always good for racing. Wouldn't be a bad thread to compile a list of all of those type of fairy tale horses.

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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,471 posts
    there are some hard luck ones..story goes that bill godeke was looking at a couple of yearlings cavorting in a paddock in SA. he opted for the most costly one...came over here...I've forgotten its name...maybe won a couple of mid-weekers.
    the other one? finished up being named Mummify.
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  • Ridersonthestorm33Ridersonthestorm33    10,930 posts
    edited June 2015
    The one I will never forget is when he was 7 yrs old Nakayama Japan . The cream of Group 1 sprinters , worked across to lead then pressured not only held on but won by about 2-3 lengths. I think a lot of good overseas judges were left gobsmacked that day because their was a bit of a knock on him after running second in Japan in a Group 2 race about 3 weeks previously.
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  • Ridersonthestorm33Ridersonthestorm33    10,930 posts
    edited June 2015
    An interesting snippet about Mummify was in the tradition of the great American Indian warrior horses of 200 years ago he was buried standing up. A great honour.
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  • Thoroly_BreadThoroly_Bread    2,348 posts
    JayJay said:

    How many TT's have there been that, through injury or the like, got "lost" in big stables ....old Joe might not have known too much but the horse got "one on one" attention that he would never have received in a big stable, a bond formed and we know the result. There are numerous "one horse with not terribly acclaimed trainer" stories from the past ...would Vo Rogue be in that category?...The Cleaner certainly is and Mt Eden certainly was....that it is likely to keep happening and that is the fairy tale that keeps dreamers like me intrigued ....Romantic clap trap I know but good romantic claptrap that is always good for racing. Wouldn't be a bad thread to compile a list of all of those type of fairy tale horses.

    Sorry mate I wasn't having a crack at Joe I'm sure he knew the horse better then anyone else but I was sort of putting myself in his shoes legging a jockey up in a gr1 being a mechanic and the next thing I know I have the best sprinter in to country, I'm sure the way he is portrayed and stepping out of his taxi at the sales buying TT loading him onto the roof taking him home and saying lets see if I can train is not the way it happened I he would of had a good idea what he was doing
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  • JayJayJayJay    8,623 posts
    All good TB, never interpreted it as a crack at Joe. In fact, I am sure Joe would have been just as amazed as we all were and he played his role perfectly. It is one of the great tales of the turf because he was a seriously bloody good horse that almost slipped through the net. I heard Joe talking on the radio last Sunday morning post TT's death. He hadn't changed one little bit.....still old Joe and greatly saddened by losing his mate.
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  • everreadyeverready    282 posts
    Phill duggen leased a lightly raced pacer off the late les poyser give it a couple runs in madein class did nothing told les to come n pick it up . When les try to get it on float the horse point blank refused to load after a good deal of try les told phil to keep the horse &give him a couple of hundred if ever managed to win a race Nats Niffty went on to race competitively in pacing cups interdominons pocketed $200k+ and raced till he was 14 :-bd

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  • jumjum    3,580 posts
    How did we ever get Nats Nifty into a Takeover Target thread. wowzers



    :-O
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  • everreadyeverready    282 posts
    edited June 2015
    Fair call got of track with fairy tales of the battlers

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  • jumjum    3,580 posts
    Do love a good battler story though everready.

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  • paraleticparaletic    3,750 posts
    edited June 2015
    not scared to say it but the TT story shits all over the Black Caviar story........ A battler doing his best against the rich getting lucky.

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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,471 posts
    everyone loves a battlers story, para. joe probably forked out the 1400 bucks thinking he may get a bit of fun running tt around Canberra/Queanbean etc..
    finishes up shaking hands with QE11.
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  • NatsNats    64 posts
    Slightly off the mark. Poysers got half of everything.
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  • JayJayJayJay    8,623 posts
    Half of $268k. Only won 1 race from first 20 starts for Poysers and wasn't much better when Duggan took him over. Took a while but once he got the knack of it, he learned quickly. Won 5 in a row at one stage and as an old timer, ran 4th to Maheer Lord in a Pacing Cup.
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  • NatsNats    64 posts
    First time at the beach NN got loose and swam strictly out. After getting a fair way out, only luck that he turned around and got back to shore. That was before he won a race.
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