Veteran trainer Bill Horn was on course at Northam to present the trophy on Saturday night for the Village Kid sprint.
Horn trained the champion who passed away in 2012 at the ripe old age of 31.
Foaled in New Zealand on 4th December 1980 on the outskirts of Auckland and began his career on 2nd November 1983 when he broke in the mobile score-up and finished a distant 11th in a race won by a non-descript pacer called Illingworth. Illingworth was to never win another race.
Village Kid went on to be become the richest standardbred in Australasia and the twelfth richest pacer in the world.
Village Kid retired as the world’s richest pacing gelding with a career record of 160 starts for 93 wins, 24 seconds and 12 thirds for stakes of $2,117,870.He was also the richest Standardbred in Australasia and the twelfth richest pacer in the world when he finished racing.
While them may not have been any Village Kids the 83 year Horn still enjoys getting to races when he can “my dear friend Alan Parker bought me up here today” Horn told Harnessbred.
The Village Kid sprint went too Formyeyesonly a 7 year old mare by the ill-fated Pacific Fella the mare is trained by Kristian Hawkins and was driven by her trainer.
Formyeyesonly beat the Bond trained Jungle Jewel by 7 metres with Say It Now finishing third.
The main event on the program was the 2016 Northam Cup a standing start event over 2560 meters and was taken out by Our Ideal Act a 5 year old son of American Ideal.
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