It’s about the horse.
It started early. Kid in nappies, walking with dad to the TAB every Saturday morning.
A framed race photo of Cintique winning the
time-honoured Turf Club Handicap at Caulfield in
1956 raced by my Grandfather.
A great uncle pencilling for a Melbourne rails bookie in the 1960’s.
Collections of the pink newspaper The Sporting Globe and every Thursday the Truth form guide on the kitchen table (with the rest of the paper in the bin).
Saturday mornings at Uncle Bert and Aunty Poppy’s where the phone rang a lot. Uncle Bert and Aunty Poppy marking up form guides in a haze of cigarette smoke and overflowing ashtrays.
Listening to Rollo Roylance on Sunday TV on that random racing show on Channel 10.
1$ each way on Van Der Hum on a mud-soaked Flemington bog.
And then the cerise and a lifelong love affair.
Horses named Sports, Flavour, Hire, Crawl, Holy Roller, Forensics, Unwordly... and the rockstar Big O and Lonhro.
Hawkes Racing,
Unbeatable
We were lucky enough to have an opportunity to race a small share in a horse called Frozen with the Hawkes family in 2005 and have had a lot of toenails in a lot of Hawkes horses since 2005 and we currently race eight horses with the team. Our first foray into breeding is also about to begin with a horse we owned with a group of great owners being served by Ole Kirk.
Hall of Famers; 100 + Group One winners; trainers of innumerable stallions including modern day heroes like, Lonhro, Commands, Showtime, Exceedance, Deep Field, Star Turn, Ole Kirk, North Pacific, Doubtland, Headwater and, sire of multiple Group One winner Alligator Blood, All too Hard.
Inglis and Magic Millions catalogues overflowing with pedigrees flowing with first class families raced, developed and nurtured by Hawkes.
The best judges at the yearling sales; the horses in their care always the best fed, the best groomed, the cleanest stables, the best transport, superior staff and equine experts including vets, farriers, drivers, the friendliest admin team all the way through to the best practice thoroughbred re-trainers and re-homers; we believe that here at St. Simon Thoroughbreds we have it covered.
It’s about the horse.
St. Simon was an English thoroughbred (born in 1881 and died in 1908). He was an undefeated racehorse winning classic races and became an absolute breed re-shaper. St. Simon is arguably one of the most influential and successful sires in the history of the thoroughbred.
From Rabelais to Ribot; from Nearco to Northern Dancer, St. Simon’s modern-day descendants include Justify, Galileo, Sea The Stars, Frankel, and Hawkes’ (and our) very own Zeyrek.
Pedigree counts.
Powered by Team Hawkes, St. Simon Thoroughbreds knows that understanding where you come from is the sign post on the journey to future success.
It’s about the horse.