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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Nathan’s comments
Tuesday twilight at Manawatu
Race 3: Onyx Shard
5.09pm
“She’s working really well and, from the good draw, hopefully she can run a drum. The field’s not that much harder than the one she beat last time at Manawatu (when parked for the last lap).”
Race 3: Kevin Kline
5.09pm
“We’re very happy with him - he’s come back a better horse. He went well at Auckland last start and is working well. We’ll be looking to go forward from the gate and hopefully get a gun run through behind Onyx Shard. On ability, he’s the better chance of the two.”
Race 4: Leo Lincoln
5.39pm
“He stepped like a bullet in his first go from a stand here in March. I thought he’d do the same on the second day but he galloped. We’ve got an overcheck on and hopple shorteners on Tuesday so he should make a good beginning. If he can step and lead, then maybe take a trail, he should be hard to beat. He likes it down there where the track is quite soft.”
Nathan’s comments
Thursday night at Manawatu
Race 3: Onyx Shard
6.04pm
“I thought I had Kevin Kline covered on Tuesday when we got to the straight because she was really travelling but he kicked away on us. It would be nice if she can get out of the gate as well again - she has good gate speed - and, if she does, she can get some of it again.”
Race 3: Kevin Kline
6.04pm
“He was too good for them on Tuesday, thanks to a great Fergy drive, and he’s in the same field again this time. The extra distance and wide draw shouldn’t make much of a difference and he’s our best of the night.”
Race 5: Leo Lincoln
7.02pm
“He’ll be hard to beat again if he steps like he did on Tuesday. The 10 metre handicap shouldn’t stop him. I think he’s even better if he follows something and the extra 500 metres isn’t a worry.”
