In the 2020 calendar year King Of Swing had 13 starts for 10 wins and three seconds.
Ex Lincoln Farms stars King Of Swing and Line Up clean up at NSW awards
By Barry Lichter • 2 February 2021
Two Lincoln Farms educated pacers, King Of Swing and Line Up, took honours in the New South Wales Horse of the Year awards for the 2019-20 season.
King Of Swing, who did his early racing for Lincoln Farms and trainer Ray Green, was a unanimous winner of the aged entire/gelding award and the Horse of the Year title for his impeccable season when he won the Miracle Mile, Hunter Cup and Blacks A Fake Championship.
King Of Swing, who was the leading money winner with A$1,154,866, and fastest pacer of the season, clocking 1:48, was a relatively inexperienced two-year-old when Green took him to Australia for the 2017 Breeders’ Crown at Melton - he’d won four of his six starts but never tackled top company.
But the Rocknroll Hanover colt, perfectly rated by driver David Butcher, downed star Aussie juvenile Poster Boy and Colt Thirty One to bag the A$285,000 Final, pacing the 2240 metres in a sizzling mile rate of 1:55.2.
Bred by Breckon Farms, he was sold soon after to clients of leading Perth trainer Gary Hall.
In the 2020 calendar year he was completely dominant, racing 13 times for 10 wins and three seconds.
Line Up was a classy youngster at Lincoln Farms.Line Up won 70% of the votes for the three-year-old of the year, after bagging the New South Wales and Victoria Derbies.
He was also an early star for Lincoln Farms before his sale to leading Sydney owner Emilio Rosati.
The winner of three of his nine starts here, he finished third behind One Change and Copy That in the Three-year-old Sires’ Stakes Final at Addington.
The Bettor’s Delight colt, who has notched three wins and two seconds in five Australian starts, has had his troubles since and has not raced since beating Perfect Stride and Zeuss Bromac in the New South Wales Derby last March.
Other awards:
Two-year-old trotter: Aldebaran Ursula
Three-year-old trotter: Elite Stride
Two-year-old filly pacer: Anntonia
Two-year-old pacer: Tasty Delight
Three-year-old filly pacer : Jenden Strike
Aged trotter: Tough Monarch
Aged mare pacer : Bettor Enforce.
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Ray’s comments
Friday night at Auckland
Race 9: Kevin Kline
9.55pm
“When Maurice asked him to go at the top of the straight at Cambridge he got lost and didn’t quite know what to do. He wound up well in the end but just left it a little late. He’ll learn from that and should go well again.”
Race 10: Debbie Lincoln
10.22pm
“She has ability but she’s a work in progress. She’s fast but she needs to harness it. She gets a little claustrophobic when they come around her so the mission on Friday will be to get round without her doing anything stupid. She’s a much stronger individual now than when she started off in April.”
