Kevin Kline the kind of horse everybody would love to own - he just keeps running

Lincoln Farms trainer Ray Green says Kevin Kline is no champion but he’s the kind of horse anyone would be thrilled to own.

“I’d love to own him myself. If I had him in America I’d make a living off him.”

Green and his training partner Nathan Delany produced the Always B Miki three-year-old to win his fifth race at Auckland on Friday night when he led all the way for Peter Ferguson to beat Mhai Surfer Girl and Hooray Henry.

Kevin Kline has now won $81,038 and, incredibly, he’s done it all basically on his first preparation.

But the real beauty of the horse is that he races regularly and always puts in - from 36 starts he has also racked up nine seconds, five thirds, seven fourths and five fifths. Only five times has he run worse than fifth.

“He just keeps running,” says Green. “He got an easy lead on Friday night and was just too good for them. And there were some handy types against him.”

Kevin Kline, only the fourth favourite in a field of six, had to run only 2:42.2 to keep his rivals a bay, his 56.2 final 800 metres making it very hard for anything to run him down.

“He’s a pretty good horse but we won’t go to Christchurch with him. He’d be running for third at best in the derby. He can’t beat those top ones (like Marketplace and Rubira).

“We’ll hang round up here for now. Now that he’s R60 he’ll have to front up to better horses soon and that’s when we might give him a break.”

Lincoln Farms’ owners John and Lynne Street are enjoying racing Kevin Kline with a number of long-time partners including Margaret Rabbitt, the Red and Blue Syndicate, Lance Myocevich, Priscilla Edmunds, Trevor Casey, Dave and Daphne Jones, Jason Deane, Brent Mulholland and Ray Menzies.