Word: santic
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...with a modest fourth place in the mare's debut appearance at a Victorian country race meet just three years ago. Rob Childs was there that day, but he remembers only her odd name - concocted from the first two letters of the Christian names of five of owner Tony Santic's female staffers. "When you see them running their maiden at Benalla and coming fourth, you don't put them down as one to watch," says Childs. But Boss easily recalls the first time he rode Makybe, at a track-work session one morning in 2003. The sense that here...
...Makybe those walls are about to be replaced by paddock fences. Though Boss says he's never seen a horse with her recuperative powers, Makybe was spent after the race. So it seemed fitting that it was on the victor's podium that Santic, the engaging self-made tuna baron from the South Australian fishing town of Port Lincoln, announced to her "20 million owners" that their winner wouldn't race again. The crowd went home lingering over the inevitable comparisons with other track greats - a contest Boss has little time for. "They all have their own stories and they...
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